Demonstrating the impact of POLST forms on hospital care requires information not contained in state registries

BACKGROUND: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) programs have expanded rapidly, but evaluating their impact on hospital care is challenging. OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate how careful study design can reveal POLST’s impact at hospital admission and why analyses of state registry data...

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Autores principales: Turnbull, Alison E., Ning, Xuejuan, Rao, Anirudh, Tao, Jessica J., Needham, Dale M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31211788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217113

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31211788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217113

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