Representation of the hierarchical and functional structure of an ambulatory network of medical consultations through social network analysis, with an emphasis on the role of medical specialties
Fernando Martín Biscione,
Juliano Domingues da Silva
Abstract:Background Ambulatory Health Care Networks (Amb-HCN) emerge when doctors establish circuits of patient referral and counter-referral in their offices, explicitly or spontaneously. We aimed to characterize the structural and functional topology of an Amb-HCN of a private health insurance provider (PHIP) using objective metrics from graph theory. Methods A Social Network Analysis was conducted with administrative claim data of a Brazilian PHIP. Included were beneficiaries of a healthcare plan not restricting the… Show more
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