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, ...

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 ...

Question: I heard you speak recently and you said that “everyone over age 18 should have a will, power of attorney for finances and an Advance Health Care Directive.” I have those documents and have a ...

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 ...

St. Charles Health System first to activate this interoperability in Oregon through Epic EHR, enabling real-time access for clinicians and first responders This achievement was made possible through ...

Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than residents ...

MyDirectives, the leading provider of digital advance care planning (ACP) tools, and the National POLST Collaborative, a key advocate for patient-centered portable medical orders, today announced a ...

Back in 1993, Oregon was the first state in the nation to introduce the POLST form. It tells your doctor what medical interventions you want at the end of life. For example, many people don't want to ...