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Polymer Patient Examination Glove

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 Polymer Patient Examination Glove LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#968 of 1000 · 376 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 376 reports
  • RANK #968 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 121 injury-typed
  • MALF 225 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 76
  • PHOTO Diazo Colorimetry

Nearest event-volume peer: Diazo Colorimetry, Bilirubin (1 report gap)

Polymer Patient Examination Glove sits #968 of 1000 among tracked device types with 376 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 32.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+1.7 pp)
  • MALF 59.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-4.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CARDINAL HEALTH accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Polymer Patient Examination Glove in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Polymer Patient Examination Glove carries 376 MAUDE reports, ranked #968 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 225 (59.8%)
Injury 121 (32.2%)
Other 26 (6.9%)
4 (1.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

239 (62.2%)
Other 129 (33.6%)
Required Intervention 6 (1.6%)
R 5 (1.3%)
O 3 (0.8%)
Disability 1 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 1 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Material Split, Cut or Torn 41
Material Puncture/Hole 31
Torn Material 18
Contamination 16
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 15
Break 15
Defective Device 15
Product Quality Problem 15
Patient-Device Incompatibility 14
Patient Device Interaction Problem 10
Material Integrity Problem 9
Physical Resistance/Sticking 8
Component Incompatible 7
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 7
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 7
Device Damaged Prior to Use 6
Material Discolored 6
Component Missing 5
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 3
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 3

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
00
2000: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 4
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 12
11
2011: 9
12
2012: 11
13
2013: 10
14
2014: 8
15
2015: 12
16
2016: 25
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 3
19
2019: 21
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 20
22
2022: 19
23
2023: 24
24
2024: 76
25
2025: 73
26
2026: 13

Related Entities for Polymer Patient Examination Glove

Top Manufacturers

CARDINAL HEALTH 27
UNK 14
UNKNOWN 13

Event Locations

188 (50.0%)
HOSPITAL 99 (26.3%)
OTHER 42 (11.2%)
NO INFORMATION 20 (5.3%)
I 16 (4.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 6 (1.6%)
HOME 1 (0.3%)
IN TRANSIT TO USER/MEDICAL FACILITY 1 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.3%)
PUBLIC VENUE 1 (0.3%)

Compare CARDINAL HEALTH vs UNK →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Polymer Patient Examination Glove, 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 (376 here).

Diazo Colorimetry, Bilirubin 375 Device, Percutaneous Retrieval 374 Scissors, Ophthalmic 378 Alkaline Picrate, Colorimetry, Creatinine 372

Similar death-typed counts

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

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Polymer 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 Polymer 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.