Associations between quality of care in informal provider networks and nursing home admissions in Germany: results of a retrospective cohort study using German health claims data

Abstract Background High-quality outpatient medical care can prevent care-dependent people from having to move to a nursing home. Quality of care is determined by the behaviour and cooperation of providers, which, when sharing patient collectives, can be understood as functionally defined informal p...

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Main Authors: Dominik Domhoff, Kathrin Seibert, Susanne Stiefler, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Dirk Peschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-05-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00462-2