# Physical Medicine Devices; Reclassification of Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final order. · Published 2014-04-14 · Effective 2014-04-14 · 79 FR 20779
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-08257
- **Category:** fda-device
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 20779
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 890
- **Publication date:** 2014-04-14
- **Effective date:** 2014-04-14
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0568
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final order to reclassify stair-climbing wheelchairs, a class III device, into class II (special controls) based on new information and subject to premarket notification, and further clarify the identification.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/04/14/2014-08257/physical-medicine-devices-reclassification-of-stair-climbing-wheelchairs)
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