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Changes in health-care policy have brought the issue of performance reporting to the fore. In this Perspectives, Smaldone and Uzzo discuss how the Kubler-Ross 'five stages of grief' model could help provide insight into why physicians are reluctant to accept emerging quality-reporting mechanisms.
