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Open-source design of medical devices, following the concept of frugal engineering, provides unrestricted descriptions of technical details, allowing the low-cost and local fabrication of devices to reduce global inequities in healthcare.

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  1. Unit of Biophysics and Bioengineering, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

    Jorge Otero & Ramon Farré

  2. CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Barcelona, Spain

    Jorge Otero & Ramon Farré

  3. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Joshua M. Pearce

  4. Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Joshua M. Pearce

  5. Office of the Dean, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA

    David Gozal

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R.F. wrote the manuscript, and the other authors contributed to the discussion of the content and to preparing the final version.

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Otero, J., Pearce, J.M., Gozal, D. et al. Open-source design of medical devices. Nat Rev Bioeng 2, 280–281 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00162-9

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