Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Canada.
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Philips has become aware that when the user changes the machine for step and shoot beams from a fixed jaw to a variable jaw machine the jaws may change from symmetry to asymmetry to duplicate the original beam but the jaw symmetry yes/no option remains set to yes. when exported via dicom rt the multileaf collimeter (mlc) and jaw positions agree with the pinnacle plan. however because the jaw symmetry flag is set to yes the record and verify (r&v) system may force the jaws to be symmetric thereby re-positioning the beam. the resulting beam on the r&v side does not match the beam in pinnacle.