Unveiling hidden connections: How social networks impact diversion in hospital emergency departments: An exploratory social network analysis

• Troy Francis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: troy.francis@theta.utoronto.ca

  Affiliations HumanEra, Research and Innovation, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, Program for Health System and Technology Evaluation, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7259-0922

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• Maaike de Vries,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations HumanEra, Research and Innovation, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

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• Mark Fan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HumanEra, Research and Innovation, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Reza Yousefi-Nooraie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Mathieu Ouimet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

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• Valeria E. Rac ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria E. Rac, Patricia Trbovich

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, Program for Health System and Technology Evaluation, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0426-4594

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• Patricia Trbovich

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria E. Rac, Patricia Trbovich

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations HumanEra, Research and Innovation, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

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