Impact of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program Maturity Status on the U.S. Nursing Home Resident's Place of Death (TH311D)

The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST) program was developed to enhance quality of care delivered at end-of-life (EoL). Although positive effects of POLST program use on dying individual's EoL care have been identified, the association between a state's POLST program maturity status and nursing home (NH) resident's place of death is unknown.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aluem Tark, Mansi Agarwal, Pat Stone Source Type: research