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Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription

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 Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#782 of 1000 · 653 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 653 reports
  • RANK #782 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 328 injury-typed
  • MALF 285 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2001: 198
  • PHOTO Chair

Nearest event-volume peer: Chair, Examination And Treatment (1 report gap)

Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription sits #782 of 1000 among tracked device types with 653 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 → · 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 50.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)
  • MALF 43.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-20.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 41% of coded problems · Top event location is 83% of location-tagged rows .

Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription carries 653 MAUDE reports, ranked #782 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 328 (50.2%)
Malfunction 285 (43.6%)
21 (3.2%)
Other 17 (2.6%)
Death 2 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 306 (46.1%)
190 (28.6%)
Other 113 (17.0%)
Life Threatening 28 (4.2%)
Disability 8 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 6 (0.9%)
S 5 (0.8%)
R 4 (0.6%)
Death 3 (0.5%)
O 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 57
Insufficient Information 8
Noise, Audible 8
Break 7
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 7
Patient Device Interaction Problem 6
Defective Device 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Patient-Device Incompatibility 5
Detachment of Device or Device Component 4
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 4
Use of Device Problem 4
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 3
Product Quality Problem 3
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Detachment Of Device Component 2
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 2
Inadequate Instructions for Non-Healthcare Professional 2
Moisture or Humidity Problem 2
No Apparent Adverse Event 2

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 9
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 42
98
1998: 85
99
1999: 57
00
2000: 18
01
2001: 198
02
2002: 8
03
2003: 9
04
2004: 6
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 13
08
2008: 13
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 6
13
2013: 37
14
2014: 4
15
2015: 6
16
2016: 7
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 12
19
2019: 9
20
2020: 5
21
2021: 4
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 8
24
2024: 16
25
2025: 53
26
2026: 2

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Event Locations

541 (82.8%)
NO INFORMATION 35 (5.4%)
HOME 34 (5.2%)
UNKNOWN 14 (2.1%)
I 11 (1.7%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.9%)
OTHER 5 (0.8%)
HOSPITAL 4 (0.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription, 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 (653 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription 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 Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription; 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.