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. 2011 Jul 3;6:67. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-6-67

Table 4.

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

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

Legend: See Table 3.