title: [International progress of unique device identification for medical devices].
abstract: Unique Device Identification (UDI) is a hot spot research area in the medical device administration. It comes a breakthrough from International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) and government implementation recently. The article reviewed the advancement of IMDRF UDI program, discussed the framework for UDI system, analyzed the implementation of UDI in other countries, put forward some suggestions on the development of medical device coding system in our country.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Device Standardization Administration, NIFDC, Beijing. yangwj@nifdc.org.cn
authors.forename: Wanjuan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jingli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards*; D011356:Product Labeling / Q000592:standards