Videotaped Unannounced Standardized Patient Encounters to Evaluate Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Emergency Medicine Residents
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DOI: 10.1002/aet2.10401
Abstract: Communication and interpersonal skills are important for effective patient care but are difficult to measure. Unannounced standardized patient encounters (USPEs) have the benefit of providing a standardized situation and provide a representation of usual care… read more here.
Keywords: unannounced standardized; medicine; communication; standardized patient ... See more keywords
Impact of Unannounced Standardized Patient Audit and Feedback on Care, Documentation, and Costs: an Experiment and Claims Analysis
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DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-05965-1
Abstract: Background Meaningful variations in physician performance are not always discernible from the medical record. Objective We used unannounced standardized patients to measure and provide feedback on care quality and fidelity of documentation, and examined downstream… read more here.
Keywords: unannounced standardized; feedback care; feedback; practice ... See more keywords
Direct observation of depression screening: identifying diagnostic error and improving accuracy through unannounced standardized patients
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DOI: 10.1515/dx-2019-0110
Abstract: Abstract Background Depression is substantially underdiagnosed in primary care, despite recommendations for screening at every visit. We report a secondary analysis focused on depression of a recently completed study using unannounced standardized patients (USPs) to… read more here.
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The Agreement Between Virtual Patient and Unannounced Standardized Patient Assessments in Evaluating Primary Health Care Quality: Multicenter, Cross-sectional Pilot Study in 7 Provinces of China
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DOI: 10.2196/40082
Abstract: Background The unannounced standardized patient (USP) is the gold standard for primary health care (PHC) quality assessment but has many restrictions associated with high human and resource costs. Virtual patient (VP) is a valid, low-cost… read more here.
Keywords: agreement; quality; unannounced standardized; patient ... See more keywords