TY - BOOK AU - Khalid, Nauman TI - Use and Application Of MAUDE In Patient Safety. [Review] PY - 2021/// KW - IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED KW - MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute KW - Review N2 - The world health organization defines patient safety as the "absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum."[1] Each day hundreds of thousands of medical devices are utilized for delivering care to patients. As healthcare professionals, it is imperative that we prevent errors, apply lessons learned from our past errors to improve future patient outcomes. The Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database is an online searchable and publicly accessible repository developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for systematic data collection of adverse outcomes related to the medical devices.[2][3] Copyright (c) 2021, StatPearls Publishing LLC ER -