Social network analysis in healthcare settings: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social network analysis (SNA) has been widely used across a range of disciplines but is most commonly applied to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of decision making processes in commercial organisations. We are utilising SNA to inform the development and implementation of tailored behaviour-change interventions to improve the uptake of evidence into practice in the English National Health Service. To inform this work, we conducted a systematic scoping review to identify and evaluate the use of SNA as part of an intervention to support the implementation of change in healthcare settings.

Methods and findings

We searched ten bibliographic databases to October 2011. We also searched reference lists, hand searched selected journals and websites, and conta

SUBMITTER: Chambers D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3411695 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature