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March 12, 2026BMC Medical Ethics0 citationsOpen Access

Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges

SMSiyan MengYFYunqing FeiDLDanyang Luo

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the ethical implications of using incognito standardized patients to assess stigma in healthcare environments.
  • Review traditional standardized patient methodologies
  • Introduce incognito visits as a new approach
  • Discuss potential harms and benefits of the new method
  • Identified various ethical challenges associated with partial deception
  • Discussed the balance between research benefits and potential harm to individuals
  • Highlighted the need for guidelines when using incognito methods in healthcare research

Abstract

This paper examines the ethical considerations of using the incognito clinic visits by standardized patients (SP) in order to measure enacted stigma in healthcare settings. It reviews traditional SP methods, introduces the new method, and discusses its potential harms and benefits.

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Meng et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b2584996eeacc4fcec7b8dhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-026-01397-4
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