Can health care teams improve primary care practice?

By Kevin Grumbach, Thomas Bodenheimer. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2004

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Teamwork in Healthcare: Key Discoveries Enabling Safer, High-Quality Care (2018, background): “…manage the transition to palliative care for terminal patients (Waldfogel et al., 2016) or better integrating mental health services into primary care in rural care settings in which clinical team members may not be physically colocated with patients or one another (Grumbach & Bodenheimer, 2004).”
A 2020 vision of patient-centered primary care (2005, background): “Primary care practices could effectively incorporate many of the elements of patient-centered care such as online communication, same-day appointments, and team-based care.(20,21) Waiting times for appointments can be drastically reduced, as can turn-around times within the physician’s office.”
The Relationship Between Professional Burnout and Quality and Safety in Healthcare: A Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “Given the importance of multidisciplinary teams in patient-centered care, 28, 29 we included a variety of healthcare providers, and explored possible differences among provider types (e.g., nurses vs. physicians) and settings (inpatient vs. outpatient).”