This paper studies whether team members’ past collaboration creates team-specific human capital and influences current team performance. Using administrative Medicare claims for two heart procedures, I find that shared work experience between the doctor who performs the procedure (“proceduralist”) and the doctors who provide care to the patient during the hospital stay for the procedure (“physicians”) reduces patient mortality rates. A one standard deviation increase in proceduralist-physician shared work experience leads to a 10–14 percent reduction in patient 30-day mortality. Patient medical resource use also declines with shared work experience, even as survival improves. (JEL I10, J24, M12, M54)

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团队特定的人力资本和团队绩效：来自医生的证据

本文研究团队成员过去的合作是否创造了团队特定的人力资本并影响当前的团队绩效。使用两次心脏手术的行政医疗保险索赔，我发现执行该程序的医生（“程序专家”）和在住院期间为患者提供护理的医生（“医生”）之间共享的工作经验减少了患者死亡率。程序学家-医生共享工作经验的一个标准差增加导致患者 30 天死亡率降低 10-14%。即使生存率提高，患者医疗资源的使用也会随着工作经验的共享而下降。(JEL I10, J24, M12, M54)