The fake patient: A research experiment in a Ghanaian hospital

Sjaak van der Geest and Samuel Sarkodie

Social Science & Medicine, 1998, vol. 47, issue 9, 1373-1381

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.

Keywords: anthropology; research; methodology; participant; observation; unobtrusive; observation; hospital; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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