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Designing a Social Network Survey for Cancer Care Coordination

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Complex Networks V

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 549))

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In this paper, we propose the use of social network analytics for investigating the effect of aggregate complexity on health care coordination for people with cancer. Here, we highlight the social networks data collection procedures, its benefits and limitations, and measures of relational data specific to aggregate complexity. Firstly, we suggest that collection and analysis of relational and attribute data offer richer insights to the health care coordination experience of cancer patients. Secondly, drawing from theoretical and methodological strength of previous social network studies conducted in health care, we describe the phases of design undertaken to develop our data collection instrument as well as challenges and solutions associated with the design phases. Thirdly, we discuss the sampling aspect of the study in the context of cancer patients at the Sydney Cancer Centre, New South Wales (NSW), Australia along with results and implications from our pre-pilot study.

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  1. Complex System Research Group, Project Management Program, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Andrew Vakarau Levula & Kon Shing Kenneth Chung

  2. Cancer Nursing Research Unit, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Kate White

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Pierluigi Contucci

  2. Florida Institute of Technology Dept. Computer Sciences, Melbourne, FL, Florida, USA

    Ronaldo Menezes

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  4. Room E-136, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Julia Poncela-Casasnovas

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Levula, A.V., Chung, K.S.K., White, K. (2014). Designing a Social Network Survey for Cancer Care Coordination. In: Contucci, P., Menezes, R., Omicini, A., Poncela-Casasnovas, J. (eds) Complex Networks V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05401-8_22

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