摘要
In this paper, the author provides a representation of Italian public hospital facilitators （HFs） （clinics, regional or local community hospitals, and medical centers） by means of different types of networks. Moving from the balance scorecards of HFs, the author has analyzed the representation of those data through the use of the minimum spanning tree （MST） and the planar maximally-filtered graph （PMFG）. This paper firstly examined the amount of information provided by the two networks and then run a sensitivity analysis of the networks by varying the elements of the balance scorecards to be considered. In this way, the author obtained a quite unusual representation of the overall economic situation of Italian HFs. Moreover, the author observed the emergence of patterns which in the author＇s opinion might help policy makers to realize a more efficient allocation of financial resources among the existing HFs.
