Indiana and Nevada are the most recent states ... medical providers to refrain from using the state's version of the POLST form. POLST forms are supposed to be filled out for terminally ill ...

Nursing home residents who have a signed POLST form significantly increase the likelihood that their treatment preferences are known, according to researchers from the Indiana University Center ...

The POLST form medical orders are different than "do ... Dr. Hickman is a professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing and Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor of Aging Research ...

The POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) program exists in some form in all 50 states. In Indiana, it is called the POST (Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment) form.

The POLST form states what kind of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives. Printed on bright pink paper, and legally binding when signed by both a doctor and patient ...

"That's going to the ICU on a ventilator." In studies, Tolle, who helped develop the POLST form, has found that just about 12 percent of permanent nursing home residents would want to go to an ICU.

But DPHHS modified the form used at Spratt, apparently for years, by adding a nonstandard question that allowed patients to opt out of receiving antibiotics. The standard POLST form used in ...

Known as a POLST (short for Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), it’s a paper form – signed in consultation with a patient and his or her doctor – that lists exactly which life ...