2024 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Acetabular, Cemented, Metal

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 Prosthesis LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#264 of 1000 · 6,780 reports · 1993–2024

  • BOOK 6,780 reports
  • RANK #264 of 1000
  • DEATH 8 death-typed
  • INJ 6,057 injury-typed
  • MALF 464 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2024
  • PEAK 2009: 1,558
  • PHOTO Pad, Heating, Powered

Nearest event-volume peer: Pad, Heating, Powered (12 report gap)

Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Acetabular, Cemented, Metal sits #264 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,780 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2024. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 89.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+58.9 pp)
  • MALF 6.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-57.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Acetabular, Cemented, Metal carries 6,780 MAUDE reports, ranked #264 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 6,057 (89.3%)
Malfunction 464 (6.8%)
Other 213 (3.1%)
38 (0.6%)
Death 8 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 4,331 (51.5%)
Hospitalization 1,625 (19.3%)
R 1,525 (18.1%)
Other 397 (4.7%)
382 (4.5%)
O 61 (0.7%)
S 34 (0.4%)
Disability 32 (0.4%)
Death 7 (0.1%)
L 5 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)
H 3 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 10
Insufficient Information 5
Migration or Expulsion of Device 4
Osseointegration Problem 4
Fracture 3
Mechanical Problem 3
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 2
Fitting Problem 2
Material Erosion 2
Naturally Worn 2
Patient Device Interaction Problem 2
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 1
Difficult to Insert 1
Expulsion 1
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 1
Material Integrity Problem 1
Nonstandard Device 1
Unintended Movement 1

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 28
95
1995: 31
96
1996: 159
97
1997: 315
98
1998: 270
99
1999: 175
00
2000: 105
01
2001: 294
02
2002: 142
03
2003: 119
04
2004: 137
05
2005: 277
06
2006: 529
07
2007: 583
08
2008: 1,025
09
2009: 1,558
10
2010: 752
11
2011: 43
12
2012: 108
13
2013: 27
14
2014: 32
15
2015: 31
16
2016: 4
17
2017: 2
18
2018: 6
19
2019: 5
20
2020: 9
21
2021: 4
22
2022: 5
24
2024: 4

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Event Locations

3,711 (54.7%)
HOSPITAL 2,819 (41.6%)
INVALID DATA 59 (0.9%)
OTHER 44 (0.6%)
HOME 39 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 39 (0.6%)
I 37 (0.5%)
NOT APPLICABLE 12 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 6 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. vs ZIMMER GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, 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 (6,780 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (8 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis 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 Prosthesis; 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.