About the Authors

Adriana Nascimento Santos Cartaxo

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana Nascimento Santos Cartaxo, Francisco Iran Cartaxo Barbosa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

adriana.santos@saude.gov.br

Affiliation General-Coordination of the Health Industrial Complex, Secretariat of Science Technology Innovation and Strategic Supplies in Health, Ministry of Health, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Francisco Iran Cartaxo Barbosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Adriana Nascimento Santos Cartaxo, Francisco Iran Cartaxo Barbosa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Equipment Office, Brazil Health Surveillance Agency – ANVISA, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ PHSB, MFM and DNP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Administration, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Marina Figueiredo Moreira

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ PHSB, MFM and DNP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Business School, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

David Nadler Prata

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ PHSB, MFM and DNP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Computation Modelling, Institute of Regional Development, Federal University of Tocantins, Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.