POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern
October 19, 2023
What level of evidence do we need for POLST to use it ourselves, to advocate for wider usage, and for…
Time to Remove Feeding Tubes from POLST: Podcast with Susan Tolle and Elizabeth Eckstrom
February 15, 2019
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
In the 1990s, Susan Tolle helped create the POLST. Now she and Elizabeth Eckstrom want to change it. And personally,…
Palliative care in nursing homes: Podcast with Caroline Stephens
February 13, 2018
Advance Care Planning · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Nursing Homes · Palliative Care · Portable Medical Orders (POLST)
Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative…
Using Our Pink Friend (POLST) Appropriately: Please Help!
April 24, 2017
The National POLST Paradigm Task Force (NPPTF) has just released their updated “Appropriate POLST Paradigm Form Use Policy,” which can…
Reaction to JAMA theme issue on Death, Dying, and End of Life
January 22, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD JAMA just came out with a theme issue subtitled Death, Dying, and End of Life. Here…
ePOLST: It’s about damn time!
July 7, 2015
By: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD The following is a quote from an Emergency Medicine physician I interviewed for a study about…
A Chance to Revise the POLST
May 24, 2012
We have written a lot about POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) in previous GeriPal posts. Mostly, with great…
Hospital DNR Orders – WTF (Why They Failed)
February 8, 2011
A thought provoking article just came out ahead of print in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. It is titled…
One Failing of POLST – “Full Treatment” is Needed for All Patients
September 22, 2010
Medicine is much like politics. Both fields have an affinity to condense complicated multifaceted issues into value-laden phrases that add…
POLST: Standardizing End-of-Life Orders rather than Patient Communication
April 20, 2010
Over the last 30 years we have tried to standardize patient communication about end-of-life issues though the utilization of statutory…