… Many families of seriously ill patients experience severe caregiving and financial burdens.
Families of younger, poorer, and more functionally dependent patients are most likely to …

… All of these limitations can seriously hinder efforts to demonstrate a clear relationship
between exposure to a severe stress and a subsequent illness (This criticism may not be …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… with a serious illness was reduced … a serious illness, or both were reduced. The number
needed to treat to prevent 1 child with serious illness was calculated by the inverse of the risk …

… Our goal was to update the factors that might differentiate patients at risk for dying in any
hospital as well as identify the predictors for death in a hospital not affiliated with the healthcare …