ReviewBMJ global health2019
Use of standardised patients for healthcare quality research in low- and middle-income countries.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What is the relationship between hospital management practices and quality of care? A systematic review of the global evidence.Health policy and planning · 2025Pooled it
- Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of methods of assessing quality of primary care.Health policy and planning · 2021Pooled it
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- Boosting health provider performance with non-financial incentives: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Tanzania.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Can a private sector engagement intervention that prioritizes pro-poor strategies improve healthcare access and quality? A randomized field experiment in Kenya.Health policy and planning · 2023Trial
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- Assessing quality gaps in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy care in China: an unannounced standardised patient study protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Clinical process quality of antenatal care in low and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional evidence from 13 countries.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Nigerian dramatic arts students' willingness to train as standardized patients.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Quality safety and disparity of an AI chatbot in managing chronic diseases: simulated patient experiments.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating the know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing: Experimental evidence from India.Science advances · 2025Article
- Primary healthcare quality of migraine in China: a study using unannounced standardized patients.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Using Unannounced Standardized Patients to Assess the Quality of Tuberculosis Care and Antibiotic Prescribing: A Cross-Sectional Study on a Low/Middle-Income Country, Pakistan.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparing the Quality of Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Dominated and Delivered by Public and Private Sector Platforms in China: Standardized Patient Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional standardised patients study of adherence to national TB guidelines in urban Nigeria.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- The impact of a multi-faceted intervention on non-prescription dispensing of antibiotics by urban community pharmacies in Indonesia: a mixed methods evaluation.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Global trends and hotpots in standardised patients research in the last 30 years: A bibliometric analysis.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Quality and Accountability of ChatGPT in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Simulated Patient Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Innovative approaches of measuring care quality in China's market for telemedicine.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
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Abstract
The use of standardised patients (SPs)-people recruited from the local community to present the same case to multiple providers in a blinded fashion-is increasingly used to measure the quality of care in low-income and middle-income countries. Encouraged by the growing interest in the SP method, and based on our experience of conducting SP studies, we present a conceptual framework for research designs and surveys that use this methodology. We accompany the conceptual framework with specific examples, drawn from our experience with SP studies in low-income and middle-income contexts, including China, India, Kenya and South Africa, to highlight the versatility of the method and illustrate the ongoing challenges. A toolkit and manual for implementing SP studies is included as a companion piece in the online supplement.
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