Polst: a portable plan for care.
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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 ethicists to refocus the conversation from the relative advantages and disadvantages of POLST to what is probably the more important issue: the place of advance care planning in Catholic health care.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health progress
دوره 94 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013