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Table 4 Individual networks by experience and setting of care delivery (lowest and highest values per individual, mean between brackets)

From: Connectedness of healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease: a social networks study

 

Number of PD patients under treatment

 

Setting of care delivery

 
 

≥10

(n = 43)

< 10

(n = 58)

P-value of difference

Primary (n = 35)

Hospital (n = 17)

Both

(n = 51)

P-value of difference

Size (one-step reach)

0 to 28 (11.4)

0 to 19 (7.1)

0.0003

0 to 20 (4.8)

4 to 28 (11.6)

0 to 22 (10.9)

0.0001

Number of connections (ties)

0 to 127 (41.0)

0 to 93 (19.2)

0.0003

0 to 69 (8.9)

5 to 127 (45.6)

0 to 93 (36.7)

0.0001

Density

0 to 73% (27.6)

0 to 100% (29.0)

0.7249

0 to 50% (16.3)

9 to 81% (36.9)

0 to 100% (32.7)

0.0001

Two step reach

0 to 84 (55.0)

0 to 78 (40.2)

0.0007

0 to 81 (30.5)

31 to 84 (56.4)

0 to 83 (54.5)

0.0001

Reach efficiency

0 to 97% (45.0)

0 to 100% (56.5)

0.0187

0 to 100% (67.7)

24 to 70% (42.9)

0 to 78% (43.1)

0.0001

Indegree centrality

0 to 23 (8.8)

0 to 15 (4.9)

0.0002

0 to 13 (3.4)

4 to 23 (9.4)

0 to 16 (7.9)

0.0001

Outdegree centrality

0 to 23 (8.5)

0 to 18 (5.2)

0.0011

0 to 20 (3.3)

4 to 23 (8.3)

0 to 22 (8.3)

0.0001

Incloseness centrality

1.0 to 9.7 (8.5)

1.0 to 9.3 (7.6)

0.0742

1.0 to 9.3 (7.3)

8.3 to 9.7 (8.8)

1.0 to 9.0 (8.5)

0.0014

Outcloseness centrality

1.0 to 12.7 (10.9)

1.0 to 12.7 (10.3)

0.3444

1.0 to 12.6 (9.4)

1.0 to 12.5 (10.4)

1.0 to 12.7 (11.4)

0.0034

Inreach centrality -2 steps

1 to 55 (40)

1 to 48 (33)

0.0004

1.0 to 43.4 (28.8)

32.8 to 54.6 (42.1)

1.0 to 49.7 (39.0)

0.0001

Outreach centrality -1 step

1 to 56 (39)

1 to 52 (34)

0.0530

1.0 to 54.3 (28.8)

1.0 54.9 (37.5)

1.0 to 56.4 (40.5)

0.0001

Betweenness centrality (normalized)

0 to 9.5 (2.4)

0.0 to 4.9 (1.0)

0.0002

0 to 7.3 (0.9)

0 to 9.5 (2.5)

0 to 7.2 (1.8)

0.0093

  1. Legend: See Table 3.