Patient safety incident reports related to traditional Japanese Kampo medicines: medication errors and adverse drug events in a university hospital for a ten-year period

• Main Authors: Yutaka Shimada (Author), Makoto Fujimoto (Author), Tatsuya Nogami (Author), Hidetoshi Watari (Author), Hideyuki Kitahara (Author), Hiroki Misawa (Author), Yoshiyuki Kimbara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Kampo medicine is traditional Japanese medicine, which originated in ancient traditional Chinese medicine, but was introduced and developed uniquely in Japan. Today, Kampo medicines are integrated into the Japanese national health care system. Incident reporting systems are curre...