Department of Health and Welfare Services

 

Chief Senior Researcher
TANEDA Kenichiro

Specialty

Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, Health System Management

Works

Original papers

1 Koike S, Wada H, Ohde S, Ide H, Taneda K, Tanigawa T. Working hours of full-time hospital physicians in Japan: a cross-sectional nationwide survey. BMC Public Health. 2024 Jan 12;24(1):164. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17531-5.

2 Kodate N, Taneda K, Yumoto A, Kawakami N. How do healthcare practitioners use incident data to improve patient safety in Japan? A qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. 2022 ; 22:241. 2022 Feb 2022
DOI 10.1186/s12913-022-07631-0
10.1186/s12913-022-07631-0

3 Taneda K. Patient safety in long-term care in Japan. Journal of the National Institute of Public Health. 2024;73(1):42-54.

4 Mizuno A, Yasuda A, Nakajima S, Taneda K. Current status of local network system for patient safety in Japan. Journal of the National Institute of Public Health. 2024;73(4):323-32

Reviews

1 Taneda K. Policies toward coordinating acute medical care and long-term care in Japan. 2025;74(1):53-59.

Books

1 Health at a Glance 2025 – OECD Indicators (Chapter 6. Quality and outcomes of care), Published on November 13, 2025

2 Kodate N, Taneda K, Yumoto A, Sugiyama Y. The Role of incident reporting systems for improving patient safety in Japanese hospitals: a comparative perspective. Human and Devices in Medical Context: Case Studies from Japan. Jun 2021

Conference presentations

1 K.Taneda. Workshop 2a National experiences in patient safety interventions in clinical challenges: “Care of patients with multimorbidity and multiple drug therapy”, Patient Safety 6th Global Ministerial Summit 2024, 17-18 April 2024, Santiago, Chile

2 K.Taneda, H.King. “Diffusion of TeamSTEPPS in Asia-Pacific 2018-2019”, TeamSTEPPS National Conference, 12-14 June 2019, San Antonio, U.S.A.

Social contributions

・ Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

・ Visiting Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, Fukushima Medical University

・ OECD Working Party on Health Care Quality and Outcomes (HCQO) Bureau Member

・ WHO International Expert for WHO Global Patient Safety Collaborative (GPSC)