Results from using a new dyadic-dependence model to analyze sociocentric physician networks

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-75

  Paul, Sudeshna ^a   Keating, Nancy L ^b   Landon, Bruce E ^b   O'Malley, James ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic independence; Latent variables; Patient sharing; Physician influence; Sociocentric network; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BILINEAR MIXED EFFECT MODEL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYADIC DEPENDENCE MODEL; EXTENDED P2 MODEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN INFLUENTIAL CONVERSATION NETWORK; PHYSICIAN NETWORK OBTAINED FROM PATIENT VISIT DATA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOCENTRIC PHYSICIAN NETWORK; STATISTICAL MODEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84905712174     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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