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By Erik K. Fromme, MD “I have to confess my first reaction was one of shock,” said my patient Amy, who has a rare, debilitating blood cancer that also affects her nervous system, “It took me by surprise to be honest.” I had just shared information with her about how COVID-19 could affect people who,… Continue reading The hard truth about coronavirus for people living with a serious illness
Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program aims to make compassionate, clear conversations about patients’ priorities, values, and goals for care accessible to all patients and clinicians. The program centers on the Serious Illness Conversation Guide, a tool to guide clinicians in conducting effective conversations with patients, and provides the implementation support needed for systems to… Continue reading Community of Practice Ambassadors Share Their Support for Serious Illness Conversations
By Rachel Broudy In recent years, there has been a movement in health care to focus on goal driven care, where the goals are patient goals and the laudable intent is to provide patient-centered care. However, there is something uncomfortable for me in the focus on goal driven care, goal attainability scales, and achieving what… Continue reading Beyond Goal Driven Care: Autonomy, Meaning, and Belonging in Nursing Home Care
As COVID-19 began to strain the world’s health care systems, members of Ariadne Labs’s global community quickly pivoted to launch initiatives and produce research aimed at mitigating the pandemic. Ten of those projects were highlighted in the labs’ first virtual Community Meeting, “Health Innovation in the Time of COVID-19,” held on June 11. More… Continue reading What COVID-19 Has Sparked: Ariadne Labs Research Community Shares Innovations from Across the Health Care Spectrum
For many people facing serious illness, religious belief can offer an important source of strength and hope in difficult times. Despite the clear importance of religion in the lives of many Americans, physicians may view it as a barrier to meaningful conversations about end-of-life care, and struggle to reconcile religion’s role in the context of… Continue reading Spirituality and the Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Fifteen U.S. health systems are collaborating with Ariadne Labs to initiate more, better, and earlier conversations with seriously ill patients as part of an innovative collaborative that is reaching diverse populations from coast to coast. The Serious Illness Implementation Collaborative – which offers trainings offered in partnership with Ariadne Labs, the Center to Advance Palliative… Continue reading Ariadne partners with health systems to initiate serious illness conversation programs
Critical care physician and Ariadne Labs faculty member Daniela Lamas has been selected among 15 accomplished professionals as 2020 National Fellows by New America, a think and action tank that connects research, technology, and solutions. The fellows program supports projects such as books, films and podcasts on topics ranging from mass incarceration, Chinese surveillance, refugees,… Continue reading Ariadne physician to probe loneliness and critical care as a New America Fellow
The most vexing issue with setting up a serious illness conversation program is not convincing hospital administrations and physicians of the value of these conversations. Rather, stumbling blocks more often involve the logistics of implementing a system that would regularly identify and schedule meetings with those who would most benefit from an in-depth discussion about… Continue reading Paper explores ways to identify patients who would benefit from a serious illness conversation