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