Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2016 Jun 27;16(3):132–153. doi: 10.1007/s10742-016-0152-x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Diagram depicting construction of the bipartite network. Physicians who share patients are tied to each other to create a unipartite network of physicians. Physicians are assigned to a hospital based on where the majority of patients they submit claims for receive their care. Ties between hospitals are formed by aggregating physician-level dyads