Social Networks in Exploring Healthcare Coordination

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 2014; 9: 3 00 which has evolved over time inside a hospital among different healthcare professionals for each patient admission. We find that social network attributes of degree centrality, connectedness and tie strength impact on coordination performance for PCCN. We further note that socio-demographic characteristics of patient age, patient sex and hospital type (ie, private versus public) moderate the relation between independent and dependent variables for PCCN. We argue that the proposed research framework of this study could be applied in various healthcare settings (eg, inter-departmental collaboration within hospital and Intensive-Care Unit coordination) to explore and model coordination performance.