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

Table 3 Kampo medicine-related medication errors and adverse drug events from May 2007–April 2017

Medication errors	99
Administration errors	77
No administration	22
Administration not on time	22
Administration of the wrong dose	7
Administration of the wrong medicine	4
Administration to the wrong patient	8
Error in preparation for administration	6
Failure to confirm that medicine was taken	4
No administration when patient was staying outside the hospital	4
Dispensing errors	15
Dispensing the wrong medicine	8
Dispensing the wrong dose	1
Failure to prepare a decoction	1
Wrong decoction preparation method	2
Labelling error on decoction bottle	3
Prescribing errors	7
Prescribing the wrong medicine	3
Prescribing the wrong dose	3
Failure to discontinue medication	1
Adverse drug events	4
Kampo medicine-induced interstitial pneumonia	4

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