Table 1 Summary of connectivity measures
From: Not just a matter of size: a hospital-level risk factor analysis of MRSA bacteraemia in Scotland
Name | Definition | Cut-off | Percentilesa | p b |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patients in | Total number of patients moving to this hospital from other hospitals adjusted by number of staffed beds | 3.61 | 3.26–4.09 | <0.001 |
Indegree | Number of hospitals that transferred patients to this hospital [11] | 11 | 6–25 | <0.001 |
Outdegree | Number of hospitals that receive patients from this hospital [11] | 8 | 8–12 | <0.001 |
Closeness centrality | Normalized measure of the centrality of a node in a network based on the mean length of all shortest paths from that node to every other reachable node in the network. [24] | 0.3898 | 0.3898–0.3915 | <0.001 |