Making sense of the French public hospital system: a network-based approach to hospital clustering using unsupervised learning methods

• Main Authors: Jan Chrusciel (Author), Adrien Le Guillou (Author), Eric Daoud (Author), David Laplanche (Author), Sandra Steunou (Author), Marie-Caroline Clément (Author), Stéphane Sanchez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Hospitals in the public and private sectors tend to join larger organizations to form hospital groups. This increasingly frequent mode of functioning raises the question of how countries should organize their health system, according to the interactions already present between th...