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Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) facilitates documentation and transition of patients' life‐sustaining treatment orders across care settings. Little is known about patient and facility factors related to care preferences… Click to show full abstract
Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) facilitates documentation and transition of patients' life‐sustaining treatment orders across care settings. Little is known about patient and facility factors related to care preferences within POLST across a large, diverse nursing home population. We describe the orders within POLST among all nursing home (NH) residents in California from 2011 to 2016.
Keywords:
life sustaining;
physician orders;
orders life;
sustaining treatment
Journal Title: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Year Published: 2022
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