Study of patient transfers during the COVID-19 pandemic using complex networks

TOMAS CICCHINI; LISANDRO OTERO; ALEJANDRO YACOBITTI; VALERIA DOLDAN ARRUABARRENA; SILVIA KOCHEN; LEONARDO BOECHI; INÉS CARIDI

Buenos Aires

Conferencia; NetSci-X ? International School and Conference on Network Science, Argentina; 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic placed health systems worldwide in crisis, and the pre-existing health infras-tructure had to adapt to its new and changeable conditions. Here we analyze a hospitals network representing the Red Sudeste in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This network has health centers from the Red Sudeste as nodes, and each link represents the number of patient transfers between pairs of health centers. A fragmented structure arises when exploring the aggregated network in time. The evolution of the network, separated into three different stages, shows an increase in the efficiency of patient transfers through time