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Table 3 Association between proportion not transfered and community-level network metrics. In the regression models, we controlled for variation in the number of hospitals and the fraction of VON member hospitals within each community

From: The interhospital transfer network for very low birth weight infants in the United States

Metric

Adjusted \(R^{2}\)

p value

Regionalization Index

0.346

<0.001

PageRank Entropy

0.158

0.085

Betweenness Entropy

0.164

0.071

Flow hierarchy

0.129

0.228

Reciprocity

0.152

0.103