2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#320 of 1000 · 4,769 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 4,769 reports
  • RANK #320 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 4,329 injury-typed
  • MALF 235 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2011: 377
  • PHOTO Tape And Bandage

Nearest event-volume peer: Tape And Bandage, Adhesive (20 report gap)

Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear sits #320 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,769 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 → · 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 90.8% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+60.3 pp)
  • MALF 4.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-59.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 55% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNK accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear carries 4,769 MAUDE reports, ranked #320 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 4,329 (90.8%)
Malfunction 235 (4.9%)
Other 134 (2.8%)
71 (1.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 2,656 (42.7%)
Required Intervention 1,441 (23.1%)
R 976 (15.7%)
327 (5.3%)
O 291 (4.7%)
Hospitalization 188 (3.0%)
S 176 (2.8%)
Disability 149 (2.4%)
H 15 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.1%)
L 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,046
No Apparent Adverse Event 187
Insufficient Information 129
Patient-Device Incompatibility 107
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 87
Material Split, Cut or Torn 53
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 45
Difficult to Remove 38
Product Quality Problem 30
Use of Device Problem 29
Break 24
Torn Material 20
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 18
Patient Device Interaction Problem 16
Fitting Problem 13
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 13
Contamination 12
Defective Device 12
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 12
Device Handling Problem 11

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 18
95
1995: 8
96
1996: 26
97
1997: 34
98
1998: 58
99
1999: 33
00
2000: 41
01
2001: 41
02
2002: 57
03
2003: 103
04
2004: 102
05
2005: 108
06
2006: 156
07
2007: 280
08
2008: 214
09
2009: 137
10
2010: 220
11
2011: 377
12
2012: 250
13
2013: 151
14
2014: 179
15
2015: 161
16
2016: 193
17
2017: 280
18
2018: 257
19
2019: 205
20
2020: 117
21
2021: 110
22
2022: 126
23
2023: 178
24
2024: 297
25
2025: 217
26
2026: 35

Related Entities for Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear

Top Manufacturers

UNK 121

Event Locations

3,106 (65.1%)
I 975 (20.4%)
NO INFORMATION 246 (5.2%)
UNKNOWN 232 (4.9%)
HOME 141 (3.0%)
INVALID DATA 23 (0.5%)
OTHER 16 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 11 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 7 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 5 (0.1%)
PUBLIC VENUE 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 1 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTDOORS 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear, 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 (4,769 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear 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 Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear; 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.