teach-back method
Medical term Patient Care Coordination and Education
Asking the patient to explain or show, in their own words, what they were taught, to confirm understanding.
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Free practice questions that use teach-back method
- Patient Care Coordination and Education, question 5A patient with limited reading skills is starting a new twice-daily medicine. Which teaching approach best overcomes this barrier?
Related terms
- screeningTests or exams to detect a disease early, usually in people without symptoms.
- secondary preventionFinding and treating a disease in its early stages to prevent complications and progression.
- shared decision-makingThe patient and provider make health care decisions together, with the patient stating their needs and limits.
- social determinants of healthConditions where people are born, live, learn, work and age that affect health outcomes.
- tertiary preventionManaging an existing disease to prevent complications, disability or death.