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The Quality of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions: A Pilot Study.

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Published in 2017 at "Journal of palliative medicine"

DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2016.0059

Abstract: BACKGROUND Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms are used to document patient treatment preferences as medical orders. Prior research demonstrates that use of POLST alters medical treatments in a way that is consistent with… read more here.

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