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Table 2 Characteristics of identified types of healthcare provider patient-sharing networks

From: Care coordination for severe mental health disorders: an analysis of healthcare provider patient-sharing networks and their association with quality of care in a French region

Characteristic

Mean (SD) [or n (%) when specified]

C1

(n = 5)

C2

(n = 9)

C3

(n = 5)

Structural characteristics

 Densitya

24.09 (15.45)

14.27 (6.28)

19.49 (7.25)

 Transitivity

44.94 (16.61)

32.51 (7.83)

37.17 (10.36)

 Median weighted degreea

16.60 (4.83)

19.89 (6.01) c

13.20 (2.36)

 Total number of providers (excluding index hospital)

85.00 (91.67)

124.56 (82.75)

59.60 (52.77)

 Number of links between providers

534.80 (619.17)

994.67 (809.32)

315.20 (374.18)

Compositional characteristics

 Index hospital specialized in psychiatryb, n (%)

1.00 (20.00)

4.00 (44.44)

1.00 (20.00)

 Number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the index hospital

150.60 (167.49)

159.00 (109.32)

104.40 (127.52)

 Number per 100,000 adult inhabitants of community-based providers

Psychiatristsa

7.07 (4.42)

10.19 (6.77)

5.19 (2.80)

GPsa

40.18 (17.40)

32.05 (13.04)

23.81 (5.50)

Nurses

24.04 (6.72)

21.66 (6.90)

9.94 (3.35)

 % of the different types of providers

Psychiatrists

8.72 (4.54)

13.99 (6.98)

11.77 (6.16)

GPs

50.61 (8.65)

44.51 (4.85)

53.79 (10.14)

Nurses

31.33 (6.86)

31.49 (5.42)

22.62 (7.45)

Hospitalsa

9.34 (4.81)

10.01 (3.03)

11.82 (2.02)

 % of specialized health professionals (psychiatrists) among community-based health professionals

9.63 (5.21)

15.54 (7.80)

13.37 (7.00)

 % of physicians among community-based health professionalsa

65.48 (7.01)

64.95 (6.35)

74.44 (8.27) c

 % of private hospitals among hospital providersa

6.86 (9.60) c

47.21 (9.39)

52.78 (17.79)

Other characteristics

 Typology of mental care in the vicinity of the index hospitalb

Areas with limited healthcare resources, n (%)

1.00 (20.00)

0.00 (0.00)

0.00 (0.00)

Areas with resources concentrated in hospital settings, n (%)

0.00 (0.00)

0.00 (0.00)

0.00 (0.00)

Areas with strong private care supply and an organization adapted to urban practices, n (%)

0.00 (0.00)

5.00 (55.56)

4.00 (80.00)

Areas with strong healthcare resources, n (%)

2.00 (40.00)

4.00 (44.44)

1.00 (20.00)

Mostly rural areas combining healthcare and health and social care supply n (%)

2.00 (40.00)

0.00 (0.00)

0.00 (0.00)

 Loyalty indexb

> 80%, n (%)

5.00 (100.00)

6.00 (66.67)

3.00 (60.00)

[60–80%], n (%)

0.00 (0.00)

1.00 (11.11)

2.00 (40.00)

< 60%, n (%)

0.00 (0.00)

2.00 (22.22)

0.00 (0.00)

 % of specialized ambulatory care provided in the index hospitala

36.10 (14.27) c

16.90 (8.22) c

27.70 (6.84)

 Average number of contacts with any healthcare provider per patienta

65.41 (5.56)

81.72 (12.40) c

47.74 (4.08) c

  1. aVariables used as active variables in the PCA. Density, transitivity, number of providers, number of links between providers and number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the index hospital were highly correlated; thus only density was introduced in the PCA. The proportion of nurses and the proportion of GPs among the healthcare providers of the network were highly correlated with the percentage of physicians among community-based health professionals in the network, and were therefore not introduced in the PCA. The proportion of psychiatrists among the healthcare providers of the network and the proportion of specialized health professionals among community-based health professionals were highly correlated with the number of psychiatrists in the network per 100,000 inhabitants, and were therefore not introduced in the PCA
  2. bVariables used as illustrative variables in the PCA
  3. cSignificantly different from the overall mean
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