… to develop a serious illness definition for surgical patients and identify a … Serious illness is
a broader definition of high-risk patients, defined as “a health condition that carries a high risk …

… All patients at high risk of dying in the next 1 to 2 years are candidates for conversations
about serious illness; a variety of methods can be used to identify such patients. Development of …

… Implementing serious illness conversations for patients on dialysis involves identifying
patients at the highest risk of adverse outcomes, triggering conversations, and conducting them …

… Results: Conceptually, “Serious illness” is a health condition that carries a high risk of
mortality AND either negatively impacts a person's daily function or quality of life, OR excessively …

… with critical risk of bias, for this review, to maximize rigor, data evaluation excluded studies
with serious or critical risk of bias. Studies on spirituality and serious illness were categorized …

… the population of patients who could benefit from serious illness conversations. While we …
“at-risk” patients in this study, this method misses as many as 79 percent of at-risk patients. This …

… : “Serious Illness is a condition that carries a high risk of mortality, … and understanding that
serious illness may encompass a … serious illness) to a more restricted definition (ie, the highest …

Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug paxlovid significantly reduces hospital admissions and deaths among
people with covid-19 who are at high risk of severe illness, when compared with placebo…

… hope in providing patient care, especially for patients with serious illness. Although clinicians
… Or should clinicians risk a loss of hope to ensure that patients understand their prognosis? …

… Given the difficulty involved in assessing prognosis for patients … People with at least one
serious illness and functional … have a 47% risk of hospitalization and a 28% risk of death in the …