
Social Network Analysis of Patient Sharing Among Hospitals in Orange County, California
Author(s) -
Bruce Y. Lee,
Sarah M. McGlone,
Yeohan Song,
Taliser R. Avery,
Stephen Eubank,
Chung Chou H. Chang,
Rachel R. Bailey,
Diane K. Wagener,
Donald S. Burke,
Richard Platt,
Susan S. Huang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2010.202754
Subject(s) - orange (colour) , medicine , social network (sociolinguistics) , public health , family medicine , medical emergency , nursing , computer science , world wide web , social media , biology , horticulture
We applied social network analyses to determine how hospitals within Orange County, California, are interconnected by patient sharing, a system which may have numerous public health implications.