California POLST education program

California Breast Cancer Research Program

California Department of Food and Agriculture Fertilizer Research and Education Program

Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) paradigm program in the hospice setting.

BACKGROUND The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm Program was designed to ensure the full range of patient treatment preferences are honored throughout the health care system. Data are lacking about the use of POLST in the hospice setting. OBJECTIVE To assess use of the POLST by hospice programs, attitudes of hospice personnel toward POLST, the effect of POLST on ...

Polst: a portable plan for care.

Recent months have witnessed a lot of Catholic writing about POLST, with some bishops and theologians critical of the POLST program2 and others cautiously supportive.3 This controversy has been helpful in raising some important issues regarding the conceptualization and implementation of the POLST paradigm in various states. The controversy might also be an occasion for Catholic health care eth...

Undergraduate Medical Education Program

260 Brodie Centre, 260-727 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3E 3P5 Telephone: (204) 789 3557 Fax: (204) 789 3929 E-mail: [email protected] Website: umanitoba.ca/medicine Dean: Dean Sandham Associate Dean (Undergraduate): Bruce Martin Associate Dean (Medical Education): William Fleisher Associate Dean (Professionalism): Samia Barakat Assistant Dean (Student Affairs): Cornelia Van Ineveld A...