With this important resource, health care leaders from the board room to the point-of-care can learn how to apply the science of safe and best practices from industry to healthcare by changing leadership practices, models of service delivery, and methods of communication.

Julianne M. Morath is the chief operating officer and vice president of care delivery of Children's Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.

Joanne E. Turnbull, RN, MS, is a well-known writer and speaker on the subject of patient safety. Until 2001 she was the executive director of the National Patient Safety Foundation.