Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms help ensure that resident and surrogate care preferences are honored. Nursing facilities that use Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment ...

Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. Nursing home residents who have Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment significantly increase the likelihood that their treatment preferences are known, a statewide ...

A team, led by Regenstrief Institute researcher Alexia Torke, M.D., is exploring if guidance in filling out medical treatment options on the POLST form makes a measurable difference in a person's care ...

POLST is a medical order signed by a health care provider based on patient%27s wishes for end-of-life care The National POLST Task Force Initiative has endorsed POLST programs in 16 states Supporters ...

Susan Hickman, PhD, director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute, and her colleagues nationwide are stressing the importance of including orders about ...

Most California nursing home residents had completed physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, within six years after POLST reporting was mandated in the Minimum Data Set, according to ...

A 92-year-old woman resides in an assisted-living facility in Oregon and has extensive inoperable coronary artery disease, becoming breathless moving from her bed to the chair. Capable of decisions, ...