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Table 2 The numbers of patients and incident reports filed from May 2007–April 2017

From: 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

 

2007a

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017b

Total

N of OPs in TUH

189,546

283,428

293,205

297,022

302,328

305,478

304,136

301,813

296,167

297,475

98,655

2,969,253

N of OPs in DJOM (%)

8780

(4.63%)

12,642

(4.46%)

12,416

(4.23%)

12,018

(4.05%)

11,251

(3.72%)

11,329

(3.71%)

10,203

(3.35%)

9233

(3.06%)

8766

(2.96%)

8206

(2.76%)

2644

(2.68%)

107,488

(3.62%)

N of IPs in TUH

131,689

195,856

191,027

188,296

188,342

175,766

172,406

187,143

188,007

185,655

60,356

1,864,543

N of IPs in DJOM (%)

1628

(1.24%)

1887

(0.96%)

1691

(0.89%)

1794

(0.95%)

1677

(0.89%)

1207

(0.69%)

1178

(0.68%)

884

(0.47%)

946

(0.50%)

723

(0.39%)

115

(0.19%)

13,730

(0.74%)

N of IRs in TUH

1303

2043

2206

2101

2192

2057

2077

2366

2089

2175

715

21,324

N of IRs related to KMs in TUH(%)

14

(1.07%)

19

(0.93%)

14

(0.63%)

16

(0.76%)

12

(0.55%)

8

(0.39%)

7

(0.34%)

9

(0.38%)

4

(0.19%)

5

(0.23%)

0

(0.00%)

108

(0.51%)

  1. DJOM Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, IPs Inpatients, IRs Incident reports, KMs Kampo medicines, N Number, OPs Outpatients, TUH Toyama University Hospital
  2. aData for 8 months, from May to December 2007. bData for 4 months, from January to April 2017