title: A call for a new connectivity.
abstract: "Twisting the Lion's Tail" is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature on the need to break down silo thinking and acting. If we stay within a narrow silo by suggesting that researchers generate knowledge, practitioners use the knowledge and then researchers evaluate the results, we will not get to the system thinking view articulated in the lead paper. The author hopes his observations presented in this commentary add to the conversation.
authors.affiliation: Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: MacLeod
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D057172:Economic Recession; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*