Purpose The Serious Illness Conversation Guide is a tool that helps clinicians understand their patients’ goals and values and incorporate them in clinical decision-making. The person-centered questions in the guide explore: A patient’s understanding of their illness, their preferences for information, their personal goals, their fears and worries, as well as their sources of strength, the abilities they find most important to their daily life and the tradeoffs they are willing to take for the possibility of more time, and…