Recall of Conveyed Information
Ultimately, the information conveyed by you to your patient has to be recalled to further any insight and compliance. You should be aware that patients forget substantive amounts of information despite your efforts to inform them well.
The Recall of Conveyed Information is a rating scale to test your patient’s recall of information conveyed during the consultation.
Content Scales
1Diagnosis
1.1What is wrong with you, according to your physician?
2Aetiological Conditions
2.1What are, according to your physician, the cause(s) of your complaint(s)?
3Prognosis
3.1What is, according to your physician, the prognosis of your complaint - without and with treatment?
4Advice
4.1What advice has your physician given?
5Examinations
5.1What further examination(s) or test(s) will take place?
6Treatment
6.1What treatment has been advised?
7Referral
7.1To whom have you been referred?
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8.1Instructions For Use
Instructions for patients:
- Please, write down or mention to us the information the physician conveyed to you during the consultation about each of the subjects.
Information for physicians and researchers:
- The written or recorded responses are taken as the information conveyed by the physician and recalled by the patient.
- To measure the quality of recall, compare the written or recorded information with the information the physician actually conveyed during the interview.
- Rate the recall of conveyed information on each scale of the Recall of Conveyed Information Rating Scale:
- 1. No information written down by the patient;
- 2. Information totally incorrectly reported;
- 3. Less than 50% of the information correctly reported;
- 4. Less than 90% and more than 50% of the information correctly reported;
- 5. More than 90% of the information correctly reported.
- Recall can be interpreted by either taking the scores on each of the scales separately or by computing the sumscore of the items combined.
- The RCI is very reliable and pairs of observers who independently reviewed medical interviews and scored the amount of recalled information achieved high levels of inter-rater reliability.
Recall of Conveyed Information Rating Scale was constructed for the Medical Interview section of the Competency in Medical and Psychomedical Education project (Crijnen & Kraan, 1983). Further reading: RCI Rating Scale and Construct Validity.
© Crijnen & Kraan 1985 – 2021
