Regional medical inter-institutional cooperation in medical provider network constructed using patient claims data from Japan.

The aging world population requires a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system. To examine the efficiency of medical cooperation, medical provider and physician networks were constructed using patient claims data. Previous studies have shown that these networks contain information on medical c...

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Main Authors: Yu Ohki, Yuichi Ikeda, Susumu Kunisawa, Yuichi Imanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266211