Analyzer, Chemistry (Photometric, Discrete), For Clinical Use
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §862.2160 (Clinical Chemistry panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#48 of 1000 · 78,872 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 78,872 reports
- RANK #48 of 1000
- DEATH 25 death-typed
- INJ 1,167 injury-typed
- MALF 75,298 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2011: 11,605
- PHOTO Intraocular Lens
Nearest event-volume peer: Intraocular Lens (486 report gap)
Analyzer, Chemistry (Photometric, Discrete), For Clinical Use sits #48 of 1000 among tracked device types with 78,872 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use carries 95.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 1.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-28.8 pp)
- MALF 95.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code High Test Results is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS accounts for 37% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .
Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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82,555 reports
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81,214 reports
- Intraocular L…
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79,358 reports
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78,872 reports
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What this shows Analyzer, Chemistry (Photometric, Discrete), For Clinical Use carries 78,872 MAUDE reports, ranked #48 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (4,470) held close to the prior two-year average of 4,002.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (78,872 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (25 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Analyzer, Chemistry, For Clinical Use; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.