Journal article
Using POLST to ensure patients' treatment preferences
Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.), Vol.44(3), pp.16-17
03/01/2014
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000443322.11726.91
PMID: 24531577
Abstract
Research has shown that patients with advanced illness who use portable orders for life-sustaining treatments (POLST) to specify their resuscitation preferences are more likely to have care consistent with their wishes than those who simply have an advance directive such as a living will. The POLST form provides standing medical orders that nurses, paramedics, and other first responders can act on immediately when the patient is in crisis, wherever the patient is--at home, in a clinic, or in the hospital. Covering the patient's preferences concerning CPR, antibiotics, mechanical ventilation, and artificial nutrition, POLST has been shown to be more effective than traditional advance directives at converting treatment preferences into immediately actionable medical orders and in limiting unwanted life-sustaining treatments. Here, Buck and Fahlberg examine ethical concerns of POLST.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Using POLST to ensure patients' treatment preferences
- Creators
- Harleah Buck - University of Wisconsin–MadisonBeth Fahlberg - School of Nursing
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.), Vol.44(3), pp.16-17
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
- DOI
- 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000443322.11726.91
- PMID
- 24531577
- ISSN
- 0360-4039
- eISSN
- 1538-8689
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370758302771
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