2021-4-20
Serious Illness Care Resources
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2020-10-2115 Health Systems Celebrate Implementation Success at Conclusion of Serious Illness Care Program Collaborative
2020-7-1An Experiment in End-Of-Life Care: Tapping AI’s Cold Calculus to Nudge the Most Human of Conversations
2020-6-30End-Of-Life Planning Is A ‘Lifetime Gift’ To Your Loved Ones
2020-4-15Ariadne Labs Launches Toolkit to Support Health Systems, Clinicians Talking with Patients Impacted by COVID-19
2020-4-7Being Prepared in the Time of COVID-19: Guide helps patients and those close to them consider what matters most in treatment
2020-4-7COVID-19 Conversations: Talking to Patients at High Risk
2020-2-21Relationship-Building Innovations for Dignified Patient Care
2019-12-23Spirituality and the Serious Illness Conversation Guide
2019-9-13Ariadne partners with health systems to initiate serious illness conversation programs
2019-9-12Ariadne physician to probe loneliness and critical care as a New America Fellow
2019-9-10Paper explores ways to identify patients who would benefit from a serious illness conversation
2019-8-15New viewpoint highlights strategies for communicating prognosis with patients
2019-7-2Five questions with Erik Fromme of Ariadne Labs
2019-4-2Ariadne faculty member lands writing gig on Fox drama “The Resident”
2019-3-22Program improves communication between oncology clinicians and patients
2019-3-22Serious Illness Conversation Guide Can Help Clinicians Communicate with Critically Ill Patients
2019-3-15What Difference Does It Really Make To Talk About Dying Earlier?
2019-3-14New study on Serious Illness Care Program underscores significant benefit of more, better, and earlier conversations between clinicians and patients
2019-2-4Ariadne physician-researcher aiming to improve serious illness care receives prestigious grant
2018-11-6Transparency and apology after medical errors lowers financial impact on hospitals, study finds
2018-9-27Three Ariadne Labs faculty are recognized for their work to advance the field of palliative care
2018-6-20Ariadne Labs founder Atul Gawande transitions to chairman and becomes CEO of new health care organization
2018-5-15Faculty Invited to Submit Applications for Ariadne Labs Spark Grant
2018-5-1Ariadne and HSPH offer new custom course on checklist design and use for quality and safety
2018-4-19New Communications Skills Pathfinder Portal to fill training gap for clinicians treating seriously ill patients
2018-4-11Ariadne Labs Year 5 Story
2018-4-9New collaborative aims to improve communication between clinicians and patients with serious illness
2018-3-22Gaps in End-of-Life Care
2017-12-15Want to get great at something? Get a coach.
2017-10-26Atul Gawande Keynote Address: Teamwork a foundation for improved outcomes
2017-10-18Checklists are boring, but death is worse
2017-10-18How a simple health care fix can save more lives than penicillin
2017-10-11Atul Gawande & Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation
2017-10-1National patient safety leader joins Ariadne Labs as Chief Medical Officer
2017-9-28“Is Health Care a Right?” Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest article in The New Yorker explores this question
2017-9-6Dr. Atul Gawande on what we should be asking in end-of-life care
2017-8-19100 Most Influential People in Healthcare 2017
2017-7-28Data Is Critical for Better Care, Expanded Access
2017-7-5New study demonstrates effectiveness of serious illness communication in primary care
2017-6-22Analysis indicates that insurance expansion improves access to care, health, and survival
2017-5-10HUBweek Change Maker: Atul Gawande
2017-5-9New Mass Coalition survey: Most are not talking about wishes for serious illness care
2017-5-9Mass. Survey On End-Of-Life Plans Finds Gap Between What We Say And What We Do
2017-5-2Serious Illness Care Program featured in The Economist
2017-4-3Massachusetts Coalition launches novel effort to help people talk about what they want at life’s end
2017-2-8Baylor Scott & White Health Pioneers Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program
2016-12-15New research identifies significant variation in health outcomes across hospitals
2016-12-14Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die
2016-12-1Changing How Patients and Doctors Talk About Death
2016-10-14Watch the video: Atul Gawande leads panel with President Obama on the future of medicine
2016-10-12Livestream: Atul Gawande Joins President Obama to discuss future of medicine and health care innovation
2016-9-16Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance
2016-8-4The “Better” Bet
2016-8-3Ariadne researchers identify barriers preventing primary care clinicians from having serious illness conversations with patients
2016-7-27Frontline Documentary Being Mortal nominated for Emmy Award
2016-7-25What We Need To Know As We Help Our Loved One To Die
2016-7-18Spotlight: Dr. Atul Gawande Visits Newton-Wellesley Hospital
2016-7-15Clinicians learn how to talk to patients about what matters most and be change agents for better care
2016-7-7New faculty and research innovations highlighted at Year-End Health Systems Innovation Meeting
2016-5-12Ariadne Labs joins state coalition to encourage serious illness conversations
2016-4-29When the Patient Won’t Ever Get Better
2016-3-10Palliative care pioneer Dr. Susan Block honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
2016-2-10Ariadne Labs Announces 2016 “Communication in Serious Illness” Course
2016-1-13Neurosurgery at the End of Life
2016-1-12Are Doctors Ready To Talk About End-Of-Life Care?
2016-1-10Brigham and Women’s Magazine Spotlights Ariadne Labs: Simple Solutions Spark Sweeping Changes in Medicine
2016-1-4How doctors fail the dying
2015-12-18Dana-Farber Program Seeks to Improve Conversations with Patients with Serious Illness
2015-9-2Dr. Rachelle Bernacki is selected as a 2015 Sojourn Scholar Leadership Grant Recipient
2015-4-5From Specialty to Shortage
2014-11-11Hospice patients more likely to die at home, receive efficient care
2014-10-10Making end-of-life care more humane
2014-10-5The Best Possible Day
2014-10-4Can life in a nursing home be made uplifting and purposeful?
2013-6-23Ariadne Labs Will Focus on Beginning and End of Life Issues
2013-6-18Checklist theory used in creating end-of-life talk guide
- Research2020-9-22
Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program on Health Care Utilization at the End of Life for Patients with Cancer
2020-9-22Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program on Health Care Utilization at the End of Life for Patients with Cancer
2020-8-22Serious illness conversations with outpatient oncology clinicians: understanding the patient experience
2020-8-14Implementing serious illness communication processes in primary care: A qualitative study
2020-7-31Managing code status conversations for seriously ill older adults in respiratory failure
2020-7-29Best practices for teaching clinicians to use a serious illness conversation guide
2020-7-6Patient and clinician experience of a serious illness conversation guide in oncology: A descriptive analysis
2020-6-26Measuring Goal-Concordant Care: Results and reflections from secondary analysis of a trial to improve serious illness communication
2020-6-22Adherence and Concordance between Serious Illness Care Planning Conversations and Oncology Clinician Documentation among Patients with Advanced Cancer
2020-6-19Quality of clinicians’ conversations with patients and families before and after implementation of the Serious Illness Care Program in a hospital setting: a retrospective chart review study
2020-6-8A systematic intervention to improve serious illness communication in primary care: Effect on expenses at the end of life
2020-6-1Feasibility of a Brief Intervention to Facilitate Advance Care Planning Conversations for Patients with Life-Limiting Illness in the Emergency Department
2020-5-5Patient and clinician experience of a serious illness conversation guide in oncology: A descriptive analysis
2020-5-2Goals of Care Conversations in Serious Illness: A Practical Guide
2020-1-7“Find Out What They Lack, Try to Provide”: A Qualitative Investigation of Palliative Care Services Adapted to Local Need in a Low-Resource Setting
2019-9-17Training Clinicians in Serious Illness Communication Using a Structured Guide: Evaluation of a Training Program in Three Health Systems
2019-8-15Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics
2019-8-1Prioritizing Primary Care Patients for a Communication Intervention Using the “Surprise Question”: a Prospective Cohort Study
2019-6-28Earlier identification of seriously ill patients: an implementation case series
2019-6-1Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program in Outpatient Oncology: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
2019-6-1Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Communication Between Oncology Clinicians and Patients With Life-Limiting Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of the Serious Illness Care Program
2019-5-16Curriculum in Quality Improvement for Interprofessional Palliative Care Trainees
2019-3-14Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Communication Between Oncology Clinicians and Patients With Life-Limiting Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of the Serious Illness Care Program
2019-3-14Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program in Outpatient Oncology: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
2019-1-28Interprofessional Work in Serious Illness Communication in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study
2018-9-14Cancer Survivorship and Palliative Care: Shared Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
2018-6-6From Barriers to Assets: Rethinking factors impacting advance care planning for African Americans
2017-11-7Achieving Goal-Concordant Care: A Conceptual Model and Approach to Measuring Serious Illness Communication and Its Impact
2017-10-18Seeking and Accepting: U.S. Clergy Theological and Moral Perspectives Informing Decision Making at the End of Life
2017-7-5A Systematic Intervention To Improve Serious Illness Communication In Primary Care
2017-6-22Analysis indicates that insurance expansion improves access to care, health, and survival
2016-8-3Ariadne researchers identify barriers preventing primary care clinicians from having serious illness conversations with patients
2016-1-13Best Practices: Targeting Surgeon Communication at the End of Life
2016-1-13Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions
2015-10-7Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention
2015-6-1The role of palliative care in population management and accountable care organizations.
2014-12-1Communication about serious illness care goals: a review and synthesis of best practices.
2014-12-1Pitfalls in communication that lead to nonbeneficial emergency surgery in elderly patients with serious illness: description of the problem and elements of a solution.
2014-11-12Association Between the Medicare Hospice Benefit and Health Care Utilization and Costs for Patients With Poor-Prognosis Cancer
2014-10-24Facilitators and barriers to advance care planning in oncology.
2014-7-1Raising the bar for the care of seriously ill patients: results of a national survey to define essential palliative care competencies for medical students and residents.
2014-6-15Palliative Care: A Core Competency for Intensive Care Unit Doctors
2014-5-29Conversations about Treatment Preferences before High-Risk Surgery: A Pilot Study in the Preoperative Testing Center
2014-5-17A need for scalable outpatient palliative care interventions
2014-4-1Strategic targeting of advance care planning interventions: the Goldilocks phenomenon.
2013-12-1Serious Illness Communications Checklist
2013-10-1Surgery at the end of life: a pilot study comparing decedents and survivors at a tertiary care center.
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Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Download283.00 kBThe Serious Illness Conversation Guide is the backbone of the Serious Illness Care Program. The current iteration consists of steps to elicit important information from your patients about their goals and values: setting up the conversation, assessing the patient’s illness understanding and information preferences, sharing prognosis, exploring key topics, and closing and documenting the conversation.
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