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Sales data may not correlate exactly to use of that device in the patient. For example, 1000 devices may have been sold by the firm, but 200 are still at the distributor and 20 are still in hospital supply. Matching the registration of patients with implants with sales data helps. How good are the records of explanted devices? How do you capture patients that have died and still have the implanted device?