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Module 5 of 5 · ISO 13485 · Clause 8

Measurement, analysis and improvement

The final clause closes the loop with something specific to healthcare: post-market surveillance and reporting to authorities when required.

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Feedback and complaints

A system to gather and analyze information on whether the product meets requirements, including formal complaint handling.

Post-market surveillance

Proactive collection of information in production and post-production, with a procedure to report to authorities when regulation requires it.

Nonconformity and corrective action

Control of nonconforming product, with corrective and preventive actions based on root-cause analysis and the associated risk.

What an auditor usually asks for

  • A complaint log with its analysis and closure
  • A post-market surveillance and regulatory reporting procedure
  • A nonconforming product log recording root cause
  • Internal audits and a review of action effectiveness

How to cover measurement and improvement in Kimobox

  1. 1Log every complaint with its analysis, root cause and linked action.
  2. 2Manage post-market surveillance with regulatory reporting alerts.
  3. 3Open every nonconformity with a mandatory root cause and effectiveness check.

Every complaint stays linked to its batch, its cause and its action, ready for a notified-body inspection.

See nonconformities and corrective actions in Kimobox

Where each figure comes from

References to the official text in force. If a standard is revised, this page is updated and the review date says so.

  1. ISO 13485:2016 — Medical devices. Quality management systems ISO · March 2016
  2. Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices EUR-Lex · 5 April 2017
  3. ISO 14971:2019 — Application of risk management to medical devices ISO · 2019 ed.