AAMI/ANSI Human Factors Revised Guideline Will Soon Be Ready For Use
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the American National Standards Institute expect to publish revised guidelines on human factors design processes for medical devices by the summer of 2001.
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