Primary care comprehensiveness and care coordination in robust specialist networks results in lower emergency department utilization: A network analysis of Medicaid physician networks

• Main Authors: SHE, Zhaowei, GAGLIOTI, Anne H., BALTRUS, Peter, LI, Chaohua, MOORE, Miranda A., IMMERGLUCK, Lilly C., RAO, Arthi, AYER, Turgay
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: primary care; care coordination; social network analysis; Medicaid; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7123; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8122/viewcontent/JPC.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Background: Care coordination is an essential and difficult to measure function of primary care. Objective: Our objective was to assess the impact of network characteristics in primary/specialty physician networks on emergency department (ED) visits for patients with chronic ambulatory care sensitiv...