Do Life-Sustaining Treatment Orders Match Patient and Surrogate Preferences? The Role of POLST (RP303)

It is essential to high-quality medical care that life-sustaining treatment orders match the current, values-based preferences of patients or their surrogate decision-makers. It is unknown whether concordance between orders and current preferences is higher when a POLST form is used compared to standard documentation practices.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - June 20, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Susan Hickman, Alexia Torke, Greg Sachs, Rebecca Sudore, Qing Tang, Giorgos Bakoyannis, Nicholette Heim Smith, Anne Myers, Bernard Hammes Source Type: research