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. 2014 Apr 23;29(8):1183–1187. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2860-7

Table 2.

Conditions for Employing USPs for Optimal Performance Assessment

• Clinicians are unaware they are seeing a USP
• Actors adhere to their scripts consistently
• Performance measures are based on research evidence
• Cases are constructed to assess behaviors that cannot be reliably assessed using simpler methods
• The overall number and pattern of cases is customized to answer important questions for stakeholders to the evaluation