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SBAR

noun/ˌɛsbiːeɪˈɑː/

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A structured communication tool with four sections — Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation — used to convey clinical information concisely.

Give me a quick SBAR on the patient in bed four before I come up.

Topic: Handover & SBAR in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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