TABLE OF CONTENTS :
1. Improving health system efficiency for better health outcomes
2. Association between hospital accrediting agencies and hospital outcomes of care in the United States
3. Cost-effectiveness analysis of the decentralized facility financing and performance-based financing program in Nigeria
4. Identifying cost-saving opportunities for surgical care via multicenter time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) analysis as exemplarily shown for cholecystectomy
5. Participation in delivery system reform programs and U.S. acute care hospital integration into behavioral health
6. Hospitals and community benefit requirements: perspectives of community benefit administrators in Massachusetts
7. Design, implementation and impact of a new physician role to address capacity challenges at a large academic medical center
8. Advancing human health, safety, and well-being with healthy buildings
9. Evaluation of the effectiveness of Interprofessional Education at Gunma University as the WHO Collaborating Centre: case series
10. Reconceptualizing family caregivers as part of the health care team