Ji, RongjiaoDong, Zixuan2024-10-042024-10-042023-06-062023-05-17http://hdl.handle.net/10362/173001The study represents a master dissertation, that is a research project with objective is to identify the referral pattern between primary care physicians and specialists using network science. The referral network represents significant impact on improving healthcare effectiveness. Understanding powerful features that have stronger clustering effect on referral network and the referral patterns differed from physician needs and geographical characteristics can predict an adequate referral relationship. Graph Neural Networks model was applied on this study which conducted a social network consists of nodes to be physicians, edges are the referrals from one physician to another and the shared patients represents weights of edges.engBusiness analyticsBusiness and data analyticsDataData visualizationmaster thesis203366514