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The article comments on patient safety research. The role of the health services research community in clarifying nomenclature, applying appropriate methods and in driving change based on meaningful data are identified. The patient safety movement has extended the interdisciplinary integration of management, economics and medicine.

Editorial. Focuses on the report `An Organisation With a Memory,' which deals with adverse health care events that occur in Great Britain's National Health Service hospital sector. Epidemic of underreported preventable injuries due to medical management; Challenges facing clinical professionals; Recommendations for national mandatory reporting scheme for adverse health events.