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Serious Illness Conversation Guide

Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program is excited to share with you an updated Serious Illness Conversation Guide, which has been refined through an iterative, community-engaged process.

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Serious Illness Care Program COVID-19 Response Toolkit

(Updated June 9, 2020 with Long-Term Care Resources) Conversations between patients and clinicians about what matters most lead to higher quality care and improved quality of life for patients and those who care for them. The COVID-19 pandemic makes communication both more difficult and more important than ever, particularly for people who are at highest… Continue reading Serious Illness Care Program COVID-19 Response Toolkit

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What Matters to Me Workbook

Developed in collaboration with The Conversation Project, the What Matters to Me Workbook is designed to help people with a serious illness get ready to talk to their health care team (doctor, nurse, social worker, etc.) about what is most important to them.

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Pitfalls in communication that lead to nonbeneficial emergency surgery in elderly patients with serious illness: description of the problem and elements of a solution.
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Association Between the Medicare Hospice Benefit and Health Care Utilization and Costs for Patients With Poor-Prognosis Cancer
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Facilitators and barriers to advance care planning in oncology.
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Raising 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.
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Palliative Care: A Core Competency for Intensive Care Unit Doctors
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Conversations about Treatment Preferences before High-Risk Surgery: A Pilot Study in the Preoperative Testing Center
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A need for scalable outpatient palliative care interventions
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Strategic targeting of advance care planning interventions: the Goldilocks phenomenon.
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Serious Illness Communications Checklist
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Surgery at the end of life: a pilot study comparing decedents and survivors at a tertiary care center.
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