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Editorial
Patient safety: research methods for a new field
  1. J B Battles
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr J B Battles
 Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA; jbattles{at}ahrq.gov

https://doi.org/10.1136/qhc.12.suppl_2.ii1

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    Patient safety has emerged as a significant public health issue at the beginning of the 21st century. In the few years since the release of the Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is Human”1 in the United States and “An Organization with a Memory”2 in the UK, major research activities have been launched to address issues of patient safety, medical error, and patient injury or harm. This fury of interest in patient safety has raised the question of just what are the appropriate …

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