Content of Serious Illness Care conversation documentation is associated with goals of care orders-a quantitative evaluation in hospital.

Background: The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) increases quality of documentation about patients' values and priorities, but it is not known whether patient characteristics and goals of care are associated with the elements documented. The purpose of this study was to explore for associations between the quantity and type of elements documented after SICP conversations with patient characteristics and goals of care order.

Methods: Documentation of SICP conversations by internal medicine physicians with hospitalized patients was evaluated in a retrospective chart review between March 2018 to December 2019.