About Values in Care

Who it is for

Anyone facing a choice where more than one option is reasonable: a patient, a family member, someone deciding on behalf of a person who cannot. Clinicians, chaplains, and care teams use the same material to prepare a conversation from the other side.

Who made it, and why

Saeb, a health and civic data strategist in Michigan, Fulbright Fellow, and UChicago Harris MPP. Medical evidence can say which options are reasonable. It cannot say which tradeoffs a particular person should accept, and that half of the conversation usually happens without preparation.

Self-funded. No industry money. If outside support is ever accepted, the terms and the funder are named on the independence page before anything is published under it.

How claims are checked

Every clinical and cultural claim links to its source, and every page shows its review status. Reviewers are credited by name on what they review. Independent expert review is not complete. A citation says where a claim came from; it does not mean anyone outside this project has checked it.

Evidence is deepest in serious illness, palliative care, spiritual care, and caregiving. Each page states its coverage.

What it is not for

Not medical, legal, religious, emergency, or billing advice. It does not diagnose, recommend a treatment, or record consent. No tool here is a validated patient decision aid; that label has a higher bar, described on the methodology page. Individual decisions need your treating team.

Check the work

• MethodologyHow claims are sourced, reviewed, and labeled
• Integrity reportMachine checks, failures, warnings, run date
• Independence and fundingWhat would change if funding changed
• Coverage mapWhat is published, partial, in development, missing
• LimitationsWhat this should not be used for
• PrivacyWhat is stored, where, and for how long
• BibliographyEvery source cited across Values in Care