Target product profiles for neonatal care devices: systematic development and outcomes with NEST360 and UNICEF

Medical devices are critical to providing high-quality, hospital-based newborn care, yet many of these devices are unavailable in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and are not designed to be suitable for these settings. Target Product Profiles (TPPs) are often utilised at an early stage in the medical device development process to enable user-defined performance characteristics for a given setting. TPPs can also be applied to assess the profile and match of existing devices for a given context.

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Kirby, R. P., Molyneux, E. M., Dube, Q., McWhorter, C., Bradley, B. D., Gartley, M., Oden, Z. M., Richards-Kortum, R., Werdenberg-Hall, J., Kumara, D., Liaghati-Mobarhan, S., Heenan, M., Bond, M., Ezeaka, C., Salim, N., Irimu, G., Palamountain, K. M., Manasyan, A., Worm, A., … the TPP Survey, C. M. P. C. A. G. (2023). Target product profiles for neonatal care devices: Systematic development and outcomes with NEST360 and UNICEF. BMC Pediatrics, 23(2), 564. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04342-1

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04342-1

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