Table 2. Reports in the MAUDE Database in Categories Other Than Death in Which the Patient Had Died in All Reports Reviewed.
Term | Total No. | No. | % of Reports that were classified as death (with 95% CI when calculated)a | ||
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Reports | Nondeath reports | Reports reviewed | Reports in which the patient had died | ||
Patient | |||||
Expired | 28 239 | 3416 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Died | 23 482 | 3155 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Subsequently expired | 26 936 | 2688 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Decedent | 20 903 | 2657 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Patients expired | 8779 | 1331 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Patient died | 1462 | 1019 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Time of death | 8329 | 718 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Patient died | 4363 | 598 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Patient later expired | 431 | 153 | 100 | 100 | 100 (96-100) |
Found dead | 769 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 100 |
Patient who died | 148 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 100 |
Could not be resuscitated | 281 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 100 |
Baby died | 54 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 100 |
Patients who expired | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 100 |
Organ failure and expired | 47 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 100 |
Unreported cause of death | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 100 |
Babies died | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 100 |
Total No. of reviewed reports for all 62 terms | NA | NA | 7951 | NA | NA |
Abbreviations: MAUDE, manufacturer and user facility device experience; NA, not applicable.
Percentage of reports that were classified as death equal to the number of deaths that were identified on manual review/total number of nondeath reports ×100. A 95% confidence interval was calculated for this percentage in the cases in which only a subset of reports were reviewed.