Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up Plan (PMCFP)

This document is used to plan all post-market clinical follow-up activities for the medical
device.

Product
Product Name Version
(your product name) (version)

Context
For your orientation, here is guidance documents that may further help you to fill
out the template: * MEDDEV Guidance 2.7/1 Rev. 4 on Clinical Evaluation *
MEDDEV Guidance 2.12/2 Rev. 2 on Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up
The post-market clinical follow-up plan is compiled along with concluding the clinical
evaluation and is based on the clinical evaluation report. Following Annex XIV MDR, it
specifies the methods used to collect and evaluate clinical data with the aim of:
• confirming the safety and performance of the device throughout its product life
cycle,
• identifying previously unknown side-effects and monitoring the identified side-
effects and contraindications,
• identifying and analyzing emergent risks on the basis of factual evidence,
• ensuring the continued acceptability of the benefit-risk ratio referred to in sections
1 and 9 of annex I MDR, and
• identifying possible systematic misuse or off-label use of the device, with a view to
verifying that the intended purpose is correct.

Product Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up

References
The clinical evaluation report outlined the following risk-benefit-profile for the product:
Current content in the table really just uses random examples for the Apple watch
as a (more or less) figurative medical device.
Ris
k Benef
ID Residual Risk it ID Product Benefit
#R Inaccurate blood #B1 Increased quality of life through higher
1 oxygen measurement awareness for healthy lifestyle
#R (…) #B2 Higher likelihood of detecting chronic diseases
2 linked to low blood oxygen
Ris
k Benef
ID Residual Risk it ID Product Benefit

PMCF Objectives
In this section, translate each risk and benefit ID from your report above into a
specific objective that can be measured. Based on MEDDEV 2.12./2 guidance, you
hereby want to express a “formal hypothesis”.
Entries are again for Apple watch. Another example: if your product is a software
to support diagnosis, one of your aims would be to measure a higher sensitivity /
specificity of physicians that use your device. The clinical data you collect will
support your claimed product benefits at the end of the PMCF interval.
I
Risk / Benefit PMCF Objective D
Inaccurate blood oxygen measurement False-high blood #
oxygen values R
1
Inaccurate blood oxygen measurement False-low blood oxygen #
values R
2
Higher likelihood of detecting chronic diseases linked to Higher detection of #
low blood oxygen sleep apnea B
2

PMCF Activities
In this section, describe the methods you will use to collect the data you specified
above. Generally: if you claim that your product will somehow improve the
patient’s well-being - how will you measure that?
For example: if your product is based on machine learning, you may want to
calibrate and evaluate your model on customer-specific data before they use it in
their clinical setting. Results from such evaluation will give an idea of your
model’s generalizability (your objective).
Other examples are: clinical investigations, analysis of retrospective data,
structured user feedback analysis (e.g. surveys), etc.

PMCF Schedule
PMCF Activity ID Responsible Role Due Date
Clinical trial #R1, B#2, (…) CMO (…)
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