Patient Examination Glove
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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §880.6250 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Patient Examination Glove LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#905 of 1000 · 484 reports · 1992–2025
- BOOK 484 reports
- RANK #905 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 30 injury-typed
- MALF 431 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2025
- PEAK 2016: 333
- PHOTO Cane
Nearest event-volume peer: Cane (0 report gap)
Patient Examination Glove sits #905 of 1000 among tracked device types with 484 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Patient Examination Glove carries 89.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 6.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-24.1 pp)
- MALF 89.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Torn Material is 40% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 81% of location-tagged rows .
Patient Examination Glove in the event-volume neighbourhood
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What this shows Patient Examination Glove carries 484 MAUDE reports, ranked #905 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 3 in 2021, up from an average of 1 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Patient Examination Glove
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Patient Examination Glove: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (484 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for 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 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.