Reporter’s occupation and source of adverse device event reports contained in the FDA’s MAUDE database

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Table 1 Reporting source and occupation of reporter – Jan 1, 1997 to Dec 31, 2018

Top 16 Occupations and categories	Source of the report
	Manufacturer	Voluntary (Directly to the FDA)	User facility	Distributor	Total
Physicians	1,364,335	6,794	1,841	5,541	1,378,511
Patient; family; friend^a	951,968	33,276	748	646	986,638
Health professional	343,284	14	14	93	343,405
Other health care professional	259,374	8,361	1,295	1,329	270,359
Medical equipment company technician/representative	222,398	16	3	1,619	224,036
Nurse	207,971	18,850	15,831	2,963	245,615
Biomedical engineer	174,791	1,684	1,189	704	178,368
Attorneys	156,490	937	161	1,053	158,641
Dentist	49,908	328	8	4,177	54,421
Non-medical professional	39,819	41	7	53	39,920
Service and testing personnel	38,344	7	3	3	38,357
Risk managers	29,402	20,713	35,380	390	85,885
Pharmacist	24,470	7,137	106	44	31,757
Not applicable	358,376	104	143	2,983	361,606
Unknown; absent data; no info.^b	571,305	3,352	31,609	4,278	610,544
Categorized as other	2,636,208	12,321	21,736	7,632	2,677,897
Codes omitted from table	76,069	1,676	789	2,243	166,662
Grand total (All records in MAUDE)	7,504,512	115,611	110,863	35,751	7,766,737
Percent of all records	96.62%	1.49%	1.43%	0.46%	100.00%

Notes: ^aComposite category for occupation codes: “patient”; “patient family member or friend” and “lay user/patient”. ^bComposite category for occupation codes: “unknown”; “no information”; and “absent data” were also combined.

Abbreviations: FDA, United States Food & Drug Administration; MAUDE, Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience.