CARDINAL HEALTH

Manufacturer adverse-event records for CARDINAL HEALTH come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2002–2026 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

CARDINAL HEALTH is a thinner MAUDE footprint

CARDINAL HEALTH accounts for 5,192 FDA MAUDE reports (#352 of 443, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 1.10% (elevated); Injury share 20.0% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for CARDINAL HEALTH

The standout signal for CARDINAL HEALTH is filing volume: 5,192 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#352 of 443, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 1.10% (elevated).

As a thinner-book manufacturer, a handful of device families can swing the totals; open the device table rather than reading the company headline alone. Event_type counts are not the same population as Patient Outcomes.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,609 (69.5% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 776 reports across 25 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

5,192
Total Reports
57
Event-type Death
1,037
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,609 (69.5%)
Injury 1,037 (20.0%)
Other 426 (8.2%)
63 (1.2%)
Death 57 (1.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,295 (60.2%)
Other 888 (16.2%)
Required Intervention 700 (12.8%)
R 214 (3.9%)
Hospitalization 191 (3.5%)
Death 59 (1.1%)
L 29 (0.5%)
Disability 29 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 27 (0.5%)
S 19 (0.3%)
H 12 (0.2%)
O 11 (0.2%)
D 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

02
2002: 5
03
2003: 148
04
2004: 155
05
2005: 193
06
2006: 194
07
2007: 207
08
2008: 175
09
2009: 172
10
2010: 112
11
2011: 117
12
2012: 124
13
2013: 85
14
2014: 125
15
2015: 666
16
2016: 395
17
2017: 111
18
2018: 45
19
2019: 8
20
2020: 13
21
2021: 305
22
2022: 643
23
2023: 776
24
2024: 315
25
2025: 95
26
2026: 8