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Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Disease Screening Of Blood And Plasma Donations

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 Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise… LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#911 of 1000 · 475 reports · 2017–2026

  • BOOK 475 reports
  • RANK #911 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 55 injury-typed
  • MALF 419 malfunction
  • SPAN 2017–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 351
  • PHOTO Heart-Valve, Allograft

Nearest event-volume peer: Heart-Valve, Allograft (1 report gap)

Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Disease Screening Of Blood And Plasma Donations sits #911 of 1000 among tracked device types with 475 MAUDE reports spanning 2017–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise… carries 88.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 23.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 11.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-18.7 pp)
  • MALF 88.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+23.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC. - BRANCHBURG accounts for 99% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 96% of location-tagged rows .

Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise… in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Disease Screening Of Blood And Plasma Donations carries 475 MAUDE reports, ranked #911 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 419 (88.2%)
Injury 55 (11.6%)
Other 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

418 (88.4%)
Other 55 (11.6%)

Top Product Problems

Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 222
Output Problem 187
False Positive Result 160
False Negative Result 147
Non Reproducible Results 142
Incorrect Measurement 5
Insufficient Device Problem Information 3
Unable to Obtain Readings 2
No Apparent Adverse Event 1

Yearly Trend

17
2017: 1
18
2018: 1
20
2020: 9
21
2021: 14
22
2022: 10
23
2023: 12
24
2024: 11
25
2025: 351
26
2026: 66

Reports rose to 351 in 2025, up from an average of 12 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

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Event Locations

454 (95.6%)
I 21 (4.4%)

Compare ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC. - BRANCHBURG vs Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. - Branchburg →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise… carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (475 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 Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise… 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 Nucleic-Acid Tests Used For Infectious Dise…; 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.