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Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#40 of 1000 · 92,389 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 92,389 reports
  • RANK #40 of 1000
  • DEATH 638 death-typed
  • INJ 1,831 injury-typed
  • MALF 88,151 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2012: 14,612
  • PHOTO Pulse Generator

Nearest event-volume peer: Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable (334 report gap)

Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital sits #40 of 1000 among tracked device types with 92,389 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 2.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.5 pp)
  • MALF 95.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+30.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 23% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HILL-ROM, INC. accounts for 23% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital carries 92,389 MAUDE reports, ranked #40 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 88,151 (95.4%)
Injury 1,831 (2.0%)
Other 1,108 (1.2%)
661 (0.7%)
Death 638 (0.7%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

85,410 (92.3%)
Other 5,443 (5.9%)
Death 614 (0.7%)
Required Intervention 413 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 320 (0.3%)
R 123 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 73 (0.1%)
O 46 (0.0%)
L 36 (0.0%)
H 35 (0.0%)
Disability 25 (0.0%)
S 17 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 7 (0.0%)
C 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Material Split, Cut or Torn 3,306
Unintended Movement 1,931
No Audible Alarm 1,316
Device Alarm System 1,242
Break 713
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 693
Mechanical Problem 672
Incorrect Measurement 669
Detachment of Device or Device Component 614
Device Slipped 591
Defective Alarm 440
Unintended System Motion 436
Use of Device Problem 357
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 274
Device Fell 264
Positioning Failure 255
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 247
Sharp Edges 238
Activation Problem 214
Intermittent Loss of Power 171

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 15
93
1993: 7
94
1994: 35
95
1995: 52
96
1996: 80
97
1997: 94
98
1998: 46
99
1999: 68
00
2000: 73
01
2001: 127
02
2002: 241
03
2003: 102
04
2004: 112
05
2005: 179
06
2006: 171
07
2007: 133
08
2008: 4,482
09
2009: 7,460
10
2010: 12,462
11
2011: 12,599
12
2012: 14,612
13
2013: 13,473
14
2014: 5,887
15
2015: 3,036
16
2016: 2,075
17
2017: 1,047
18
2018: 1,214
19
2019: 1,113
20
2020: 1,106
21
2021: 1,377
22
2022: 1,118
23
2023: 2,185
24
2024: 2,327
25
2025: 2,791
26
2026: 490

Related Entities for Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital

Top Manufacturers

HILL-ROM, INC. 16,752
HILL-ROM RITTER 16,010
STRYKER MEDICAL 13,429
STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 12,176
HILL-ROM BATESVILLE 5,894
HILL-ROM INC. 4,739
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 2,871
INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS 2,051

Event Locations

79,063 (85.6%)
I 8,342 (9.0%)
HOSPITAL 4,071 (4.4%)
NURSING HOME 407 (0.4%)
HOME 173 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 130 (0.1%)
OTHER 120 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 44 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 17 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
PSYCHIATRIC CENTER - WALK IN, OTHER 1 (0.0%)
REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.0%)

Compare HILL-ROM, INC. vs HILL-ROM RITTER →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (92,389 here).

Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable 92,723 System 90,588 Prosthesis 87,564 Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery 80,330

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (638 here), distinct from the volume row.

Device, Neurovascular Embolization 640 Tubes, Gastrointestinal 620 Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Diverter 600 Stent, Carotid 681

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital 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 Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital; 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.