Talk:Adverse event

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"Local researcher"? = user (of MAUDE)?

The article discusses a scenario where a patient dies unexpectedly while wearing a blood pressure cuff; currently, it says

The local researcher would use his/her medical judgment to determine whether the death could have been related to the [cuff] (my italics)

I think that "local researcher" is the user of the database: meaning tht the database will record the death as occurring (at the relevant time) - without indicating whether it is thought to be due to (or causally linked with) the cuff - and it's up to the user of the database to make that judgment.

Anyone able to confirm or correct? 31.94.38.32 (talk) 13:22, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quite an odd unlikely example without a source. N Deleted by Special:Diff/1317337678. Zefr (talk) 16:26, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're right tht it was a strikingly atypical example - and tht no source was cited for it! But it did seem to clarify - partly because it was so striking, making it likely to be useful to the reader. If someone could source something similar it would be good . . 92.19.142.60 (talk) 12:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MAUDE analysis: "Two" companies? (+ drugs??)

A 2011 edit stated tht "two" private companies "provide access to analyzed adverse event information" . . is it still only two?

Also - the same edit describes one of the two (AdverseEvents) as providing adverse event data "for drugs". What data? - where from? MAUDE seems to deal with devices, not with drugs. (And, shouldn't AdverseEvents be mentioned elsewhere in the article, anyway, rather than here?)

I'm well out of my depth (tree?) with all this, but can someone familiar with this marketplace have a go?

- 2.101.210.198 (talk) 01:55, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]