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How Advance Directives and Physician Orders for

Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Compare
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE
POLST

For whom:

For anyone 18 and older

For persons with advanced illness -- at any age

 

Purpose:

  • Instructions for future treatments
  • To appoint a Health Care Representative

 

Medical orders for current treatment

Guide actions by Emergency Medical Personnel when made available:

 

NO (with rare exception)

 

YES

Guide inpatient treatment decisions when made available:

 

Yes

 

Yes

Developed by Oregon Health Decisions and the Oregon POLST Task Force, 2010

How Advance Directives and POLST Work Together

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