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Oncology Clinical Trial Referral Network
Description
A simulated oncology clinical trial referral network from a major research hospital. For the purpose of identifying collaboration networks between oncologists, this dataset only includes referrals of patients who were enrolled in more than one clinical trial. This includes 389 patients enrolled in 288 clinical trials.
Usage
oncology_network
Format
A 'igraph' object (e.g. representing the oncology clinical trial referral network. The structure includes:
- nodes
Oncologists or clinical trials (depending on network structure).
- edges
Referral links between nodes, based on shared patient enrollment across trials.
Details
Clinical trials are categorized by intervention type, including targeted therapies (prefixed with '"T:"') and immunotherapies (prefixed with '"I:"'). There are 16 distinct intervention types (nodes) and 470 patient referrals (edges) in the network.
Source
Simulated data based on oncology clinical trial enrollment patterns.