2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Monitor, Bed Patient

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 Monitor, Bed Patient LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#376 of 1000 · 3,181 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 3,181 reports
  • RANK #376 of 1000
  • DEATH 76 death-typed
  • INJ 290 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,727 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 510
  • PHOTO Accessories

Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous (29 report gap)

Monitor, Bed Patient sits #376 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,181 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 → · 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 2.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.9 pp)
  • INJ 9.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-21.3 pp)
  • MALF 85.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code No Audible Alarm is 40% of coded problems · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Monitor, Bed Patient in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Monitor, Bed Patient carries 3,181 MAUDE reports, ranked #376 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,727 (85.7%)
Injury 290 (9.1%)
Death 76 (2.4%)
Other 61 (1.9%)
27 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,707 (82.8%)
Other 169 (5.2%)
Hospitalization 150 (4.6%)
Death 72 (2.2%)
Required Intervention 71 (2.2%)
R 53 (1.6%)
O 14 (0.4%)
S 13 (0.4%)
H 7 (0.2%)
L 7 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

No Audible Alarm 128
Device Alarm System 50
Break 28
Material Separation 16
Defective Alarm 14
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 13
Delayed Alarm 10
Device Issue 10
Communication or Transmission Problem 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Device Operational Issue 5
Intermittent Loss of Power 5
Defective Component 4
Defective Device 4
Failure to Sense 4
Material Split, Cut or Torn 4
Smoking 4
Connection Problem 3
Insufficient Information 3
Use of Device Problem 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 5
93
1993: 3
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 28
97
1997: 37
98
1998: 31
99
1999: 18
00
2000: 23
01
2001: 31
02
2002: 28
03
2003: 25
04
2004: 20
05
2005: 30
06
2006: 16
07
2007: 20
08
2008: 76
09
2009: 510
10
2010: 329
11
2011: 379
12
2012: 421
13
2013: 400
14
2014: 358
15
2015: 34
16
2016: 24
17
2017: 30
18
2018: 28
19
2019: 14
20
2020: 17
21
2021: 14
22
2022: 21
23
2023: 35
24
2024: 69
25
2025: 84
26
2026: 14

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Event Locations

2,727 (85.7%)
HOSPITAL 236 (7.4%)
NURSING HOME 106 (3.3%)
I 69 (2.2%)
INVALID DATA 14 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (0.4%)
HOME 5 (0.2%)
OTHER 5 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
HOSPICE 1 (0.0%)
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Monitor, Bed Patient, 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 (3,181 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (76 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Monitor, Bed Patient 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 Monitor, Bed Patient; 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.