METHOD FOR USING PHYSICIAN SOCIAL NETWORKS TO PREDICT COST AND INTENSITY OF CARE IN HOSPITALS
摘要
Health care costs can be predicted for a particular hospital relative to other hospitals by examining physician-physician network structural measures within the hospitals. The physician-physician networks are ascertained by examining patient sharing data between physicians and the network structural measures include the median adjusted degree of all physicians in the hospitals, and the relative centrality of primary care physicians in the hospitals. For any particular hospital, the median adjusted degree and the primary care physician relative centrality of can be compared to the median adjusted degree and median primary care physician relative centrality over all the hospitals to determine whether the health care costs for the particular hospital will be higher or lower than the other hospitals.
申请公布号
WO2012006517(A2)
申请公布日期
2012.01.12
申请号
WO2011US43347
申请日期
2011.07.08
申请人
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE;CHRISTAKIS, NICHOLAS;BARNETT, MICHAEL;LANDON, BRUCE
发明人
CHRISTAKIS, NICHOLAS;BARNETT, MICHAEL;LANDON, BRUCE