ANALYSIS OF NOMENCLATURE CLASSIFICATIONS OF MEDICAL DEVICES USED IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD

Abstract

Currently, the priority tasks of public health in any country are the standardization of terms and the creation of the nomenclature classification of medical devices, which make it possible to identify and regulate their circulation at the world level. Based on the translation of the electronic publication «Global atlas of medical devices» and the content analysis of legal documents and reference materials, it was revealed that countries in six WHO regions (African, Southern and North America, Eastern Mediterranean, European, Southeast Asia and Western Pacific) use world nomenclature classifications, such as UMDNS (12% of the responding countries surveyed in the WHO survey), GMDN (10%) and national nomenclature classifications of medical devices (26%). The use of these or those nomenclature classifications depends on the geographical location of the country and the level of income per capita per year. Only 19% of the responding countries use the existing nomenclature classifications of medical devices for the purchase of medical devices and to regulate their treatment. The Russian Federation, which is part of the WHO European Region, has its own national nomenclatural classification, developed on the basis of the world classification of GMDN, for regulating the stages of medical devices circulation.