SBAR

SBAR

• SBAR is an easy-to-remember, concrete mechanism useful for framing any conversation, especially critical ones, requiring a clinician’s immediate attention and action.
• SBAR
• promotes quality and patient safety, primarily because it helps
• individuals communicate with each other with a shared set of
• expectations.
• Staff and physicians use SBAR to share patient information
• in a clear, complete, concise and structured format; improving
• communication efficiency and accuracy.
• The SBAR technique has become the Joint Commission's stated industry best practice for standardized communication in healthcare.
• Originally developed by
• the United States Navy as a communication technique, SBAR has been adopted by hospitals and care facilities around the world as a simple yet effective way to standardize communication between care givers.
• 
• Caption: The SBAR technique provides a framework for communication between members of the health care team about a patient's condition.

Using SBAR

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