New Teach-Back Resources Available from AHRQ

New Teach-Back Resources Available from AHRQ

New Teach-Back Resources Available from AHRQ

The first of four interventions that will form AHRQ’s Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families is the health literacy strategy Teach-Back. New resources that complement existing AHRQ resources on teach-back include:

• An Implementation Guide
• An interactive learning module
• A 4-question staff survey to gauge teach-back implementation

See all the new teach-back resources by visiting http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/interventions.html.

Don’t forget AHRQ’s other teach-back resources, including:

• Use the Teach-back Method, Tool 5 in the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• The SHARE Approach‘s Using the Teach-Back Technique: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers