Standardised patients are a valid measure of quality of care
Assessments that use standardised patients are valid for measuring the
quality of physicians' care in a variety of common medical conditions.
Luck and Peabody (p 679) compared the assessments of standardised
patients of 40 consultations with an independent assessment of the
consultations based on audio recordings; overall agreement was 91%.
They conclude that these results may justify using standardised
patients as a "gold standard" in comparing quality of care across
sites or in evaluating data obtained from computerised clinical
vignettes.
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