SERIOUS ILLNESS Rajashree

CONVERSATION GUIDE
Clinician: “What are your most important goals if your health situation
worsens?”
Patient: “Just to spend time with the family. That’s about it. And be here as long
as I can. I’m not looking for a miracle. I’m just looking for a little time.”

When a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness the family or the patient
requires to know about their current prognosis as well as to take important
decisions which can be personal and medical.
SICG is a checklist for the clinicians to provide seriously ill patient to have more,
better, and earlier conversations with their clinicians about their goals, values, and
priorities that will inform their future care.

What is SICG
 By Adrian Labs

Who A four-year randomized control trial developed by

developed the Ariadne Labs and tested at the Dana-Farber Cancer

Institute examined the impact of the Serious Illness
Care Program.

SICG
Adrian labs is a joint health system innovation center
of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health working to save lives and
reduce suffering by creating scalable solutions that
improve health care delivery at the most critical
moments for people everywhere.
Atul Gawande on SICG