In the Wall Street Journal, Laura Landro writes that POLST programs help give patients and their families more control over their end-of-life care. Click here to access the full article
Dr. Mark Smith on California’s POLST Experience
Writing on the California Healthcare Foundation website, Dr. Mark Smith discusses the need for POLST in California, its legislative history, and some of the challenges of implementing the program. Click…
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NIH-funded Study Finds POLST Increases Adherence to Patient Wishes
An NIH-press release announced the release of a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that demonstrates a clear, positive relationship between POLST forms and patients’ wishes being…
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OregonLive Article Spotlights POLST
Andy Dworkin, writing on OregonLive.com, shares recent research on POLST’s effectiveness in honoring patient wishes. Dworkin writes that research shows that, overall, wishes documented in POLST forms are honored the…
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