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Why Use Teach-back

Teach-back is fundamental to providing equitable, safe, high-quality, patient- and client-centered care and services.

Learn Why Teach-back is Important

Understand how teach-back aligns with equity, safety, quality and patient- and client-centered care and services; organizational health literacy; and advancing as a health literate organization.

Learn What to Use Teach-back For

Examples for how teach-back can be used for various purposes, in varied settings, by those in clinical and non-clinical roles; and guidance for helping people initiate teach-back for themselves.

Teach-back Interactive Learning Module

This Module helps learners identify and use key elements of teach-back and plain language to promote health equity, safety, and quality, and advance organizational health literacy.

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Updated by Advancing Health Literacy Franklin County through funding from the Office of Minority Health. Operated by the Institute for Health Care Advancement.

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