ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2019
Provider Connectedness to Other Providers Reduces Risk of Readmission After Hospitalization for Heart Failure.
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- Assessing Association Between Team Structure and Health Outcome and Cost by Social Network Analysis.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
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Abstract
Provider interactions other than explicit care coordination, which is challenging to measure, may influence practice and outcomes. We performed a network analysis using claims data from a commercial payor. Networks were identified based on provider pairs billing outpatient care for the same patient. We compared network variables among patients who had and did not have a 30-day readmission after hospitalization for heart failure. After adjusting for comorbidities, high median provider connectedness-normalized degree, which for each provider is the number of connections to other providers normalized to the number of providers in the region-was the network variable associated with reduced odds of readmission after heart failure hospitalization (odds ratio = 0.55; 95% confidence interval [0.35, 0.86]). We conclude that heart failure patients with high provider connectedness are less likely to require readmission. The structure and importance of provider relationships using claims data merits further study.
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