Psychiatry and Psychology

Teach-Back Communication

Providing the patient, family or others information, and then allowing them to take an action or restate the information in their own words. The clinician prefaces communications with a statement framed to show the clinician has the burden of effective communication rather than the patient.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Providing the patient, family or others information, and then allowing them to take an action or restate the information in their own words. The clinician prefaces communications with a statement framed to show the clinician has the burden of effective communication rather than the patient.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Communication, Teach-Back
  • Communications, Teach-Back
  • Teach Back Communication
  • Teach-Back Communications
  • Closed-Loop Communication
  • Closed Loop Communication
  • Closed-Loop Communications
  • Communication, Closed-Loop
  • Communications, Closed-Loop

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2014

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  1. F01.145.209w.719w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Teach-Back Communication. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064871. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064871
  2. Teach-Back Communication. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach-back_method
  3. Teach-Back Communication. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18394025