"It helps us say what's important..." Developing Serious Illness Topics: A clinical visit agenda-setting tool.

Background: Skillful communication with attention to patient and care partner priorities can help people with serious illnesses. Few patient-facing agenda-setting tools exist to facilitate such communication.

Objective: To develop a tool to facilitate prioritization of patient and care partner concerns during serious illness visits.

User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People's Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill.

Context: No brief patient-reported experience measure focuses on the most significant concerns of seriously ill individuals.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to develop the consideRATE questions.

Methods: This user-centered design study had three phases.