"This book answers the call to action for interprofessional teams to develop quality improvement initiatives. It encompasses project planning, management, budget strategies, cost calculations, big data, and skills necessary to remain viable, successful, and sustainable in a challenging healthcare landscape. The fourth edition has moderately-heavily revised content, with 2 new chapters and multiple combined chapters that advance knowledge, collaboration, and avenues for an interconnected link between amongst professionals"-- Provided by publisher.

Preceded by Project planning and management : a guide for nurses and interprofessional teams / edited by James L. Harris, Linda Roussel, Catherine Dearman, Patricia L. Thomas . Third edition. [2020].

Key Foundations of Successful Quality Project Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Management : An Overview / James L. Harris and Bettina Riley -- Quality Improvement Projects and Quality Improvement Research : Advancing Translational Science / Linda Roussel -- Implementation Science, Team Science, and Translational Science : The Value for Projects / Clista Clanton and Linda Roussel -- Forming and Managing a Synergistic Interprofessional Improvement Team -- Making the Case for a Project : Organizational and Needs Assessment / Carolyn Thomas Jones and Linda Roussel -- Using Findings from Organizational Analysis and Clinical Needs Assessment to Frame Improvement Projects and Implementation /Linda Roussel and Shea Polancich -- Literature Synthesis and Organizational Alignment to Project Interventions and Implementation / Catherine Dearman and Lolita Chappel-Aiken -- Building the Improvement Project Budget : Quantifying the Cost and Quality Equation / Patricia L. Thomas and James L. Harris -- Developing Metrics That Support Project Plans, Interventions, and Programs / Patricia L. Thomas -- The Institutional Review Board Process / Catherine Dearman, Dionne Roberts, and Lolita Chappel-Aiken -- Big Data and Information Systems : Understanding the Value for Improvement Projects / James L. Harris, Todd Harlan, and Lonnie K. Williams -- Developing Metrics That Support Project Plans, Interventions, and Programs / Patricia L. Thomas and Michael Bleich -- Innovation, Diffusion, and Dissemination of Improvement Outcomes / James L. Harris and Catherine Dearman.