Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form to Brazil
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Overcoming Legal Impediments to Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment.
The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), otherwise known as the POLST paradigm, represents the next generation in end-of-life (EOL) planning for certain patients who wish to exercise prospective control over their own medical treatment in their final days. As is true for any physician treatment orders, a POLST is written in consultation with the patient or patient's surrogate...
متن کاملThe consistency between treatments provided to nursing facility residents and orders on the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the consistency between treatments provided and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) orders. DESIGN Retrospective chart abstraction. SETTING Stratified, random sample of 90 nursing facilities in Oregon, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. PARTICIPANTS Eight hundred seventy living and deceased nursing facility residents aged 65 and older with a minimum 60...
متن کاملLegal briefing: POLST: physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.
This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving POLST (physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.) POLST has been the subject of recent articles in JCE. It has been the subject of major policy reports and a recent New York Times editorial. And POLST has been the subject of significant legislative, regulatory, and policy attention over the past several months...
متن کاملUse 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 ...
متن کاملPhysician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for nursing home residents with dementia.
PURPOSE Many nursing home (NH) residents with dementia receive burdensome, aggressive treatments at the end of life (EOL). The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLSTs) paradigm is a strategy to enhance EOL care. This article describes the history and features of the POLST paradigm, discusses the potential advantages of using this paradigm for NH residents with dementia, and brie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Palliative Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1096-6218,1557-7740
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2017.0590