Do teams work better than solo providers? Spoiler alert: Yes

<p>Medical training has historically focused almost exclusively on the skills and actions of individual physicians. Increasingly, clinical training is incorporating an understanding of how team-based care affects patient outcomes.</p><p>For patients with chronic disease such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, can teams provide better care? </p><p>Maximilian Pany and Lucy Chen, both MD-PhD candidates in health policy at <a href="https://hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard Medical School</a>, and coauthors recently published research on that very question in the <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/40/3">March 2021 edition of <em>Health Affairs</em></a>. They found that <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01580">provider teams outperformed solo providers</a> in managing chronic diseases.</p><p>Both Maximilian Pany and Lucy Chen join Alan Weil on <em>A Health Podyssey </em>to discuss their research, team-based care, and how team composition and scope-of-practice fit into their findings.  </p><p>Listen to find out more.  </p><p>Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/a-health-podyssey">RSS</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-health-podyssey/id1533852530">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2EtaGVhbHRoLXBvZHlzc2V5">Google Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3tAEbXdlzlcgjLTHfJMYqR">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://castro.fm/itunes/1533852530">Castro</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=576615&amp;refid=stpr">Stitcher</a></p>