The fake patient: a research experiment in a Ghanaian hospital

Authors
Publication date 1998
Journal Social Science & Medicine
Volume | Issue number 47 | 9
Pages (from-to) 1373-1381
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Abstract The authors report on a research experiment involving the admission of one of them as a pseudo-patient in a rural Ghanaian hospital. The experiment was meant to assess the feasibility of carrying out unobtrusive participant observation in a hospital setting. Practical, methodological and ethical implications are discussed.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00179-8
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