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- Title
Network analysis of medical care services.
- Authors
Niyirora, Jerome; Aragones, Ossayne
- Abstract
Medical care services can be organized into a network. Understanding the structure of this network cannot only help analyze common clinical protocols but can also help reveal previously unknown patterns of care. The objective of this research is to introduce the concept and methods for constructing and analyzing the network of medical care services. We start by demonstrating how to build the network itself and then develop algorithms, based on principal component analysis and social network analysis, to detect communities of services. Finally, we propose novel graphical techniques for representing and assessing patterns of care. We demonstrate the application of our algorithms using data from an Emergency Department in New York State. One of the implications of our research is that clinical experts could use our algorithms to detect deviations from either existing protocols of care or administrative norms.
- Subjects
EVALUATION of medical care; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNITIES; COMPUTER software; STATISTICAL correlation; FACTOR analysis; NOSOLOGY; SOCIAL networks; MEDICAL coding
- Publication
Health Informatics Journal, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 3, p1631
- ISSN
1460-4582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1460458219887047