Results from using a new dyadic-dependence model to analyze sociocentric physician networks.

ABSTRACT: Professional physician networks can potentially influence clinical practices and quality of care. With the current focus on coordinated care, discerning influences of naturally occurring clusters and other forms of dependence among physicians' relationships based on their attributes and care patterns is an important area of research. In this paper, two directed physician networks: a physician influential conversation network (N = 33) and a physician network obtained from patient visit data (N = 135) are analyzed using a new model that accounts for effect modification of the within-dyad effect of reciprocity and inter-dyad effects involving three (or more) actors. The results from this model include more nuanced effects involving reciprocity and triadic dependence than under incumbent model

SUBMITTER: Paul S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4350784 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature