Demonstrating the impact of POLST forms on hospital care requires information not contained in state registries.

<h4>Background</h4>Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) programs have expanded rapidly, but evaluating their impact on hospital care is challenging.<h4>Objectives</h4>To demonstrate how careful study design can reveal POLST's impact at hospital admissio...

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Main Authors: Alison E Turnbull, Xuejuan Ning, Anirudh Rao, Jessica J Tao, Dale M Needham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217113

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