Evidence-based research supports the use of situation, background, assessment, and recommendation (SBAR)—a collaborative communication strategy—to improve communication among health care providers.1-3 SBAR has been found to assist with structuring and standardizing communication and is considered an easy-to-remember technique that provides for consistent, structured communication between members of the health care team.4 However, there has been no published support for the usefulness of SBAR as a communication technique between health care providers and patients.