Medical Device Reports (MDRs) are typically required to be submitted to the FDA within 30 days of Complaint Awareness. FDA utilizes a variety of Code Types to classify these MDRs. One of these code types is Patient Code which is being split into Health Effect – Clinical Codes and Health Effect – Impact Codes.
One of the codes used to classify these MDRs is the Patient Death. This code is used to record that the patient died during the course of medical device utilization and it does not mean that the device had anything to do with that death. The data as reported to the FDA is showing that patient deaths are decreasing substantially as a percentage of Medical Device Reports. This could be for several reasons, nevertheless, we think this is significant.
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