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most citedStress-testing the Resilience of the Austrian Healthcare System Using Agent-Based Simulation

10 citations · 14 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.med-ph2026

Comorbidity Network Analysis Reveals Diagnostic Disparities Between Austrian and Non-Austrian Inpatients: A Population-Wide Cohort Study

Elma Dervic, Andrea Vismara, Remah Dahdoul +2

International migrants face well-documented barriers to healthcare access, yet the extent to which these barriers shape patterns of disease co-occurrence remains poorly understood.…

physics.soc-ph2026

Reconstructing temporal multi-relational firm networks at scale using large language models. The case of the semiconductor industry

Seyda Köse, Christian Diem, Elma Dervic +5

The semiconductor industry is foundational to modern technology, yet its complex global multi-relational firm network remains poorly understood, posing challenges to scientists, fi…

physics.soc-ph2026

Who burdens the welfare state? Migration and ageing in housing, education, and healthcare demand

Guillermo Prieto-Viertel, Carsten Källner, Elma Dervic +3

Political discourse attributes the pressure on European welfare systems to foreign nationals. Yet projections of service demand rarely disaggregate service demand by citizenship st…

physics.soc-ph2025

Characterization Of Diseases In Temporal Comorbidity Networks

Yuri Gardinazzi, Roger Gonzaléz March, Suprabhath Kalahasti +7

Comorbidity networks, which capture disease-disease co-occurrence usually based on electronic health records, reveal structured patterns in how diseases cluster and progress across…

physics.soc-ph2025

Who Waits the Longest? Unequal Paths to Legal Stability among Migrants and Refugees

Ola Ali, Elma Dervic, Guillermo Prieto-Viertel +4

Legal systems shape not only the recognition of migrants and refugees but also the pace and stability of their integration. Refugees often shift between multiple legal classificati…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 2 cited

The diaspora model for human migration

Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Ola Ali, Elma Dervic +5

Migration's impact spans various social dimensions, including demography, sustainability, politics, economy and gender disparities. Yet, the decision-making process behind migrants…

physics.med-ph2023★ 2 cited

Unraveling cradle-to-grave disease trajectories from multilayer comorbidity networks

Elma Dervić, Johannes Sorger, Liuhuaying Yang +5

We aim to comprehensively identify typical life-spanning trajectories and critical events that impact patients' hospital utilization and mortality. We use a unique dataset containi…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 10 cited

Stress-testing the Resilience of the Austrian Healthcare System Using Agent-Based Simulation

Michaela Kaleta, Jana Lasser, Elma Dervic +6

Patients do not access physicians at random but rather via naturally emerging networks of patient flows between them. As retirements, mass quarantines and absence due to sickness d…

physics.soc-ph2021

Agent-based simulations for protecting nursing homes with prevention and vaccination strategies

Jana Lasser, Johannes Zuber, Johannes Sorger +11

Due to its high lethality amongst the elderly, the safety of nursing homes has been of central importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. With test procedures becoming available at s…