Regional medical inter-institutional cooperation in medical provider network constructed using patient claims data from Japan.

ABSTRACT: The aging world population requires a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system. To examine the efficiency of medical cooperation, medical provider and physician networks were constructed using patient claims data. Previous studies have shown that these networks contain information on medical cooperation. However, the usage patterns of multiple medical providers in a series of medical services have not been considered. In addition, these studies used only general network features to represent medical cooperation, but their expressive ability was low. To overcome these limitations, we analyzed the medical provider network to examine its overall contribution to the quality of healthcare provided by cooperation between medical providers in a series of medical services. This study focused

SUBMITTER: Ohki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9401144 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature