2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated

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.

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openFDA event book Sensor HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#37 of 1000 · 117,148 reports · 2017–2026

  • BOOK 117,148 reports
  • RANK #37 of 1000
  • DEATH 13 death-typed
  • INJ 17,413 injury-typed
  • MALF 99,715 malfunction
  • SPAN 2017–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 69,065
  • PHOTO Pump

Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Infusion, Implanted, Programmable (349 report gap)

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated sits #37 of 1000 among tracked device types with 117,148 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

Sensor carries 85.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.3pp 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 14.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-15.4 pp)
  • MALF 85.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 80% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC accounts for 97% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Sensor in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated carries 117,148 MAUDE reports, ranked #37 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 99,715 (85.1%)
Injury 17,413 (14.9%)
Death 13 (0.0%)
4 (0.0%)
Other 3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

98,869 (85.1%)
Required Intervention 14,887 (12.8%)
Other 903 (0.8%)
Hospitalization 685 (0.6%)
R 627 (0.5%)
H 123 (0.1%)
O 16 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 12 (0.0%)
Death 10 (0.0%)
Disability 5 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 97,592
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 4,085
Device Displays Incorrect Message 4,080
Unable to Obtain Readings 3,830
High Readings 3,251
Low Readings 2,744
Application Program Problem 1,432
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1,201
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,106
Product Quality Problem 1,010
Device Alarm System 729
Failure to Power Up 311
No Device Output 124
Material Twisted/Bent 54
Failure to Fire 52
Difficult to Insert 42
Premature Discharge of Battery 42
Insufficient Device Problem Information 41
Computer Software Problem 37
No Display/Image 30

Yearly Trend

17
2017: 63
18
2018: 2,094
19
2019: 3,231
20
2020: 7,222
21
2021: 69,065
22
2022: 15,542
23
2023: 10,607
24
2024: 4,934
25
2025: 1,592
26
2026: 2,798

Reports fell to 1,592 in 2025, down from an average of 7,771 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated

Event Locations

I 76,365 (65.2%)
40,688 (34.7%)
NO INFORMATION 95 (0.1%)

Compare ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC vs ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Sensor: 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 (117,148 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Sensor 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 Sensor; 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.