Social network analysis is the study of the structure of relationships between social entities.
Access to health care administrative datasets has facilitated use of “patient-sharing …

Background Coordinating health care within and among sectors is crucial to improving
quality of care and avoiding undesirable negative health outcomes, such as avoidable …

The rising incidence of chronic diseases and the outbreak of infectious diseases have posed
significant challenges to regional healthcare systems. As critical institutions within these …

Objectives Evidence on physician patient-sharing relationships from developing countries is
limited. This study aimed to identify patient-sharing networks among physicians in China …

The notion of the article has evolved from the analysis of governance network performance.
Healthcare system is an example of a governance network, complex system of relations …

Objective To evaluate whether certain healthcare provider network structures are more
robust to systemic shocks such as those presented by the current COVID-19 pandemic …

In a Drug Prescription Network (DPN), each drug is represented as a node and two drugs co-
prescribed to the same patient are represented as an edge linking the nodes. The use of …

Physicians interact and exchange information through various social networks.
Understanding peer effects through different networks can help accelerate new medical …

Understanding the complexity of care delivery and care coordination for patients with
multiple chronic conditions is challenging. Network analysis can model the relationship …

The aging world population requires a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system. To
examine the efficiency of medical cooperation, medical provider and physician networks …