Glossary

Incident [IVDR]

IVDR

‘Incident’ means any malfunction or deterioration in the characteristics or performance of a device made available on the market, including use-error due to ergonomic features, as well as any inadequacy in the information supplied by the manufacturer and any harm as a consequence of a medical decision, action taken or not taken on the basis of information or result(s) provided by the device.

 

[Definition according to (EU) 2017/746 Article 2 No. 67]