2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Medical Device Data System

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 Medical Device Data System LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#396 of 1000 · 2,961 reports · 2011–2026

  • BOOK 2,961 reports
  • RANK #396 of 1000
  • DEATH 10 death-typed
  • INJ 48 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,829 malfunction
  • SPAN 2011–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 1,249
  • PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Tracheal, Expandable (2 report gap)

Medical Device Data System sits #396 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,961 MAUDE reports spanning 2011–2026. 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 1.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.8 pp)
  • MALF 95.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+31.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Computer Software Problem is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC MINIMED accounts for 93% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 80% of location-tagged rows .

Medical Device Data System in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Medical Device Data System carries 2,961 MAUDE reports, ranked #396 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,829 (95.5%)
56 (1.9%)
Injury 48 (1.6%)
Other 18 (0.6%)
Death 10 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,857 (95.6%)
Other 65 (2.2%)
O 10 (0.3%)
Death 10 (0.3%)
R 9 (0.3%)
L 8 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.3%)
Required Intervention 8 (0.3%)
H 3 (0.1%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Computer Software Problem 1,483
Wireless Communication Problem 1,248
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 115
No Display/Image 80
Problem with Software Installation 53
Data Problem 47
Output Problem 37
Communication or Transmission Problem 21
Patient Data Problem 19
Connection Problem 17
Application Program Problem 16
Image Display Error/Artifact 16
Poor Quality Image 13
Application Program Problem: Medication Error 12
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 9
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 9
Application Program Problem: Dose Calculation Error 7
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 7
Product Quality Problem 7
Degraded 6

Yearly Trend

11
2011: 7
12
2012: 23
13
2013: 21
14
2014: 24
15
2015: 13
16
2016: 20
17
2017: 17
18
2018: 414
19
2019: 46
20
2020: 29
21
2021: 79
22
2022: 50
23
2023: 1,249
24
2024: 555
25
2025: 400
26
2026: 14

Related Entities for Medical Device Data System

Event Locations

2,354 (79.5%)
I 524 (17.7%)
NO INFORMATION 50 (1.7%)
HOSPITAL 29 (1.0%)
OTHER 4 (0.1%)

Compare MEDTRONIC MINIMED vs STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Medical Device Data System, 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 (2,961 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Medical Device Data System 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 Medical Device Data System; 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.