abstract:A simulated patient, standardized patient or sample patient (SP) (also known as a patient instructor), in health care, is an individual who is trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have been successfully used in medical education, nursing education, evaluation, and research.
The relativeerror between thesimulatedand observed valuesof the totalpatient Numbers is less than 2%, and so is that of the sum of Numbers of recovered and died patients in hospital.