A Major Medical Journal Features Oregon’s Innovation
This week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article about a real Oregon innovation: The POLST Program.
The director of OHSU’s Ethics Center, Dr. Susan Tolle explains the research and the paper:
Also, here is some of the news coverage:
As an RN of 37 yrs. I see a need for more end of life care education and I applaud you for your efforts. I live in the Chicago area, have never worked in hospice, but am researching this area of patient care. Any advice/information you have would be appreciated. I currently work in a hospital in the GI lab where we insert feeding tubes. Ethically,this is becoming more difficult for me…
Oregon is truly leading the way. POLST is a document where a patient’s values are translated into real-time orders honored by Medics and all health care providers. I hope all states can get the funding for registries – in fact a national registry would be best.