Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products

Kevin J Peine; Madeleine Short Fabic; Stephen Hodgins

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00494

Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023 Dec 22;11(6):e2300494. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00494. Print 2023 Dec 22.

Authors

Kevin J Peine¹, Madeleine Short Fabic^{2

3}, Stephen Hodgins⁴

Affiliations

¹ Office of Population and Reproductive Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
² Office of Population and Reproductive Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA. mshort@usaid.gov.
³ Associate Editor, Global Health Science and Practice.
⁴ Editor-in-Chief, Global Health Science and Practice; School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Abstract

Refinement of existing medical products, which may already have an established evidence base, robust market, and experienced users, may better meet user and potential user needs, if feedback from key stakeholders is solicited and incorporated early in the refinement process.

Publication types

Editorial