Properties of healthcare teaming networks as a function of network construction algorithms.

ABSTRACT: Network models of healthcare systems can be used to examine how providers collaborate, communicate, refer patients to each other, and to map how patients traverse the network of providers. Most healthcare service network models have been constructed from patient claims data, using billing claims to link a patient with a specific provider in time. The data sets can be quite large (106-108 individual claims per year), making standard methods for network construction computationally challenging and thus requiring the use of alternate construction algorithms. While these alternate methods have seen increasing use in generating healthcare networks, there is little to no literature comparing the differences in the structural properties of the generated networks, which as we demonstrate, can be d

SUBMITTER: Zand MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398561 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature