Palliative care is a holistic practice using a multidisciplinary approach in addressing
multidimensional needs. Although the social aspects surrounding the end-of-life phase …

Background Ariadne Labs' Serious Illness Care Program (SICP), inclusive of the Serious
Illness Conversation Guide (SICG), has been adapted for use in a variety of settings and …

Objective Communication about patients' values, goals, and prognosis in serious illness
(serious illness communication) is a cornerstone of person-centered care yet difficult to …

Importance Discussions about goals of care with patients who are seriously ill typically occur
infrequently and late in the illness trajectory, are of low quality, and focus narrowly on the …

Background: Failure to initiate discussions about patients' values and goals in serious
illness remains a common problem. Many clinicians are inadequately trained for these …

Serious illness conversations aim to align medical care and treatment with patients' values,
goals, priorities, and preferences. Timely and accurate identification of patients for serious …

Background: Early advance care planning (ACP) conversations are essential to deliver
patient-centered care. While primary care is an ideal setting to initiate ACP, such as Serious …

Background Serious illness communication is a key element of high-quality care, but it is
difficult to implement in practice. The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) is a multifaceted …

Purpose: Primary care clinicians face barriers to engaging patients in conversations about
prognosis, values, and goals (“serious illness conversations”). We introduced a structured …

The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP), designed by Ariadne Labs, is a multicomponent
intervention to improve conversations about values and goals for patients with a life-limiting …