Impact of care provider network characteristics on patient outcomes: Usage of social network analysis and a multi-scale community detection

Mina Ostovari; Denny Yu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222016

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Impact of care provider network characteristics on patient outcomes: Usage of social network analysis and a multi-scale community detection

Mina Ostovari ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mina Ostovari, Denny Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Value Institute, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5239-4046

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Denny Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mina Ostovari, Denny Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dennyyu@purdue.edu

Affiliation School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5083-1713

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Impact of care provider network characteristics on patient outcomes: Usage of social network analysis and a multi-scale community detection

Mina Ostovari,
Denny Yu

Published: September 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222016

About the Authors

Mina Ostovari

Contributed equally to this work with: Mina Ostovari, Denny Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Value Institute, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5239-4046

Denny Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mina Ostovari, Denny Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dennyyu@purdue.edu

Affiliation School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5083-1713

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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