2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Latex Patient Examination Glove

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 Latex Patient Examination Glove LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#394 of 1000 · 2,985 reports · 1992–2025

  • BOOK 2,985 reports
  • RANK #394 of 1000
  • DEATH 17 death-typed
  • INJ 1,087 injury-typed
  • MALF 96 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2025
  • PEAK 1999: 691
  • PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Elbow, Constrained, Cemented (9 report gap)

Latex Patient Examination Glove sits #394 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,985 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2025. 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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 36.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+6.0 pp)
  • MALF 3.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-61.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNK accounts for 63% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Latex Patient Examination Glove in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Latex Patient Examination Glove carries 2,985 MAUDE reports, ranked #394 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Other 1,688 (56.5%)
Injury 1,087 (36.4%)
97 (3.2%)
Malfunction 96 (3.2%)
Death 17 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,823 (55.8%)
Disability 456 (14.0%)
283 (8.7%)
Required Intervention 179 (5.5%)
Life Threatening 152 (4.7%)
S 98 (3.0%)
R 88 (2.7%)
Hospitalization 72 (2.2%)
L 49 (1.5%)
O 40 (1.2%)
Death 17 (0.5%)
Invalid Data 6 (0.2%)
H 3 (0.1%)
Not Applicable 2 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 8
Patient-Device Incompatibility 4
Product Quality Problem 3
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 1
Defective Device 1
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 1
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 1
Device Ingredient or Reagent Problem 1
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 1
Hole In Material 1
Improper Chemical Reaction 1
Insufficient Information 1
Material Integrity Problem 1
Material Puncture/Hole 1
Material Split, Cut or Torn 1
Thermal Decomposition of Device 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 7
93
1993: 7
94
1994: 106
95
1995: 68
96
1996: 184
97
1997: 374
98
1998: 599
99
1999: 691
00
2000: 429
01
2001: 278
02
2002: 88
03
2003: 24
04
2004: 18
05
2005: 12
06
2006: 6
07
2007: 11
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 11
10
2010: 10
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 1
13
2013: 2
14
2014: 6
15
2015: 5
16
2016: 7
17
2017: 7
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 1
21
2021: 1
24
2024: 6
25
2025: 1

Related Entities for Latex Patient Examination Glove

Top Manufacturers

UNK 150
UNKNOWN 88

Event Locations

1,623 (54.4%)
UNKNOWN 557 (18.7%)
HOSPITAL 381 (12.8%)
INVALID DATA 151 (5.1%)
OTHER 104 (3.5%)
NO INFORMATION 50 (1.7%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 44 (1.5%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 16 (0.5%)
HOME 15 (0.5%)
NURSING HOME 13 (0.4%)
PUBLIC VENUE 10 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (0.2%)
I 3 (0.1%)
PUBLIC BUILDING 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
DIALYSIS CENTER 1 (0.0%)
EMERGENCY ROOM 1 (0.0%)
LABORATORY 1 (0.0%)
LABORATORY/PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT 1 (0.0%)
OUTDOORS 1 (0.0%)
PATIENT'S ROOM OR WARD 1 (0.0%)
SCHOOL 1 (0.0%)
STREET 1 (0.0%)

Compare UNK vs UNKNOWN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Latex Patient Examination Glove, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Latex Patient Examination Glove 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 Latex Patient Examination Glove; 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.