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ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2025

A Scoping Review of Multilevel Patient-Sharing Network Measures in Health Services Research.

Ashlee Korsberg, Sarah L Cornelius, Fares Awa, James O'Malley, Erika L Moen

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5 authors.

Ashlee KorsbergGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-1559-6598
Sarah L CorneliusGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Fares AwaGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.
James O'MalleyGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Erika L MoenGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.

Funding

Translational Engineering in Cancer (TEC)P30CA023108 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · 1985 to 2025
$35.3M
Improving access to multidisciplinary cancer care and patient outcomes by targeting physician networksR37CA263936 · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · 2025 to 2025
$812k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023108NCI NIH HHS R37 CA263936
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social network analysis is the study of the structure of relationships between social entities. Access to health care administrative datasets has facilitated use of "patient-sharing networks" to infer relationships between health care providers based on the extent to which they have encounters with common patients. The structure and nature of patient-sharing relationships can reflect observed or latent aspects of health care delivery systems, such as collaboration and influence. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed studies that derived patient-sharing network measure(s) in the analyses. There were 134 papers included in the full-text review. We identified and created a centralized resource of 118 measures and uncovered three major themes captured by them:

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Health Services ResearchSocial Network AnalysisHumanspatient-sharing networksphysician networkssocial network analysis

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PMID40271968
PMCPMC12338495

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