Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record analysis, and the results mostly show the health-care provider's knowledge rather than actual practice. No study has used standardised patients to assess clinical practice. Therefore we aimed to assess quality of care for tuberculosis using such patients.

Methods

We did a pilot, cross-sectional validation study of a convenience sample of consenting private health-care providers in low-income and middle-income areas of Delhi, India. We recruited standardised patients in apparently good health from the local community to present four cases (two of presumed tuberculosis and one each of confirmed tuber

SUBMITTER: Das J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4633317 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature