Because predicting and outlining guidance for all possible scenarios is difficult, advance
directives are rarely sufficiently precise to dictate patient preferences in specific situations as …

National advocacy groups have spent considerable effort promoting advance care planning
and encouraging completion of advance directives in order to enhance congruence …

Introduction: Patients with cancer and oncology professional societies believe that advance
care planning is important, but we know little of who actually has this conversation …

Despite the hope that traditional advance directives would ensure that patients' end-of-life
treatment preferences are honored, numerous studies have found that only 20-30 percent of …

. ABSTRACT Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a process that
translates a patient's goals for care at the end of life into medical orders that follow the …

Background: The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is an
advance care planning tool designed for seriously ill patients. The discussions needed for …

Patients diagnosed with an advanced cancer frequently have a very limited life expectancy
and need to understand their prognosis in order to make good choices about care. Advance …

Context The physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) paradigm allows health
care professionals to document the treatment preferences of patients with advanced illness …

In this issue of JAMA, Lee and colleagues1 examine the association between Physician
Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), which involve portable medical orders that …

Abstract Since 2013, Kaiser Permanente Northern California has engaged in a systematic
effort to elicit, document, and honor the care preferences of patients as they near the end of …