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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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What can an actor teach a physician? A lot, according to a team of physicians and theater professors at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

A flick of a hand. A clenched jaw. The body communicates more than words, but are physicians listening? Not if they are glued to a computer reading an electronic medical record or flipping through a paper chart.

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A survey of nearly 700 surgical residents in 17 U.S. medical centers finds that more than half failed to report needle-stick injuries involving patients whose blood could be a source of HIV, hepatitis and other infections.

Authors of the report ??” appearing in the June 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine ??” say most residents in the survey falsely believe that reporting and getting timely medical attention won??™t prevent infection. Residents also say reporting takes ???too much time??? and interrupts their work.

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