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

• Main Authors: Minrui Zeng (Author), Yiyuan Cai (Author), Jin Cao (Author), Qianyu He (Author), Xiaohui Wang (Author), Yun Lu (Author), Huijuan Liang (Author), Dong Xu (Author), Jing Liao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundThe 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 software option for simulating clinical scenarios and is widel...