title: Physical medicine devices; reclassification of stair-climbing wheelchairs. Final order.
abstract: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final order to reclassify stair-climbing wheelchairs, a class III device, into class II (special controls) based on new information and subject to premarket notification, and further clarify the identification.
mesh_terms: D018795:Device Approval / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration; D014910:Wheelchairs / Q000145:classification*