Assurance of Medical Device Quality with Quality Management System: An Analysis of Good Manufacturing Practice Implementation in Taiwan

Table 3

Taiwan top export medical devices during 1997~2012 (in amount of sales).

Year	Top export medical devices
1997	Examination gloves, physical therapy devices, manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs/scooters, hearing aids, and sphygmomanometers
2000	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, manual wheelchairs, glucose meters, artificial limbs, physical therapy devices, blood pressure monitors, medical instruments, prosthesis devices, and syringes
2002	Powered wheelchair/scooter, examination gloves, physical therapy devices, surgical devices, prosthesis devices, blood pressure monitors, manual wheelchairs, glucose meters, and contact lenses
2003	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, physical therapy devices, examination gloves, surgical devices, blood pressure monitors, prosthesis devices, manual wheelchairs, and glucose meters
2004	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, physical therapy devices, examination gloves, surgical devices, prosthesis devices, manual wheelchairs, laboratory devices, contact lenses, and blood pressure monitors
2005	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, physical therapy devices, examination gloves, surgical devices, prosthesis devices, contact lenses, glucose meters, laboratory devices
2006	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, surgical devices, physical therapy devices, contact lenses, laboratory devices, examination gloves, surgical devices, and glucose meters
2009	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, laboratory devices, glucose test strips, surgical devices, contact lenses, glucose meters, and physical therapy devices
2010	Powered wheelchairs/scooters, glucose test strips, laboratory devices, surgical devices, contact lenses, glucose meters, and physical therapy devices
2011	Glucose test strips, laboratory devices, powered wheelchairs/scooters, contact lenses, surgical devices, glucose meters, and IVDs
2012	Glucose test strips, contact lenses, laboratory devices, surgical devices, powered wheelchairs/scooters, glucose meters, and IVDs

Source [3, 4].