Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
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physician-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-199-9717136
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Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
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POLST is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. POLST began in Oregon in 1991 and currently exists in 46 states, British Columbia, and South Korea. The POLST document is a standardized, portable, brightly colored single page medical order that documents a conversation between a provider and an individual with a serious illn
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Medical order regarding decisions for end-of-life care
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_Orders_for_Life-Sustaining_Treatment
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2024-03-21T20:03:40Z
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