{"id":14826,"date":"2019-12-24T07:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:34:32","slug":"reports-of-patients-deaths-linked-to-heart-devices-lurk-below-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14826","title":{"rendered":"Reports Of Patients\u2019 Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients\u2019 deaths related to medical devices through a reporting system that keeps the safety data out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>The system is similar to a vast program\u00a0exposed earlier this year by KHN\u00a0that kept device-injury reports effectively hidden within the agency. The FDA shuttered the program after the article about it was published and released millions of records.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/reports-of-patients-deaths-linked-to-heart-devices-lurk-below-radar\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14827,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/14827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}