Bernhard Schieber

Teach-Back as a Patient Memory Test

Knowledge

Teach-back checks the clarity of an explanation through the recipient’s interpretation. It should not become a humiliating quiz or a demand for verbatim recall. Rephrase, support, and check again, then separately consider whether the person can and wants to carry out the plan.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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