Plain Language for Healthcare Professionals: Provider to patient communication tools
Links to resources to translate medical language into plain speaking
How to Write Clearly
- Plain Language at NIH "Writing that is clear and to the point helps improve communication and takes less time to read and understand. Clear writing tells the reader exactly what the reader needs to know without using unnecessary words or expressions."
How to Communicate Clearly with Patients
- Communicate Clearly: Tool #4 AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition
- AMA Manual for Clinicians, 2nd ed., 2007 AMA Foundation 2007. Removing barriers to better, safer care. Health Literacy and patient safety: Help Patients Understand: Manual for Clinicians, 2e. Barry Weiss, M.D. 62 pages.
Harry Bliss
Teach Back Toolkit
- Why Use Teach-back? A Patient Story 1.37 minute video re: an inadvertent overdose.
- Physician Experience about Learning Teach-back 3 minute video
- Teach Back Interactive Learning Module 45 minutes. Create account to save work.
Videos
- Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand.Top image links to full 23 minute video; Bottom image links to 4.38 minute video. AMA Foundation 2010.
