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Palliative care

a portable medical order form that turns a seriously ill person's treatment preferences into actionable orders across care settings.

In palliative care, POLST refers to a portable medical order form that turns a seriously ill person's treatment preferences into actionable orders across care settings. This meaning comes from Hickman (2010) in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.[1]

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References

Hickman, S. E., Nelson, C. A., Perrin, N. A., Moss, A. H., Hammes, B. J., & Tolle, S. W. (2010). A Comparison of Methods to Communicate Treatment Preferences in Nursing Facilities: Traditional Practices Versus the Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment Program. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(7), 1241-1248. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02955.x

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