Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Medical Intervention Orders and In-Hospital Death Rates: Comparable Patterns in Two State Registries
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Association between Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for Scope of Treatment and in-hospital death in Oregon.
OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for Scope of Treatment and setting of care at time of death. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Oregon in 2010 and 2011. PARTICIPANTS People who died of natural causes. MEASUREMENTS Oregon death records containing cause and location of death were matched with POLST orders for people with a...
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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...
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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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-8614
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14273