Oregon's program to improve care for those with advanced illness highlighted in JAMA

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Oregon's groundbreaking Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment program (POLST) is featured in the latest edition of the Journal of The American Medical Association. The program, which was created by health care professionals two decades ago in an effort to ensure the wishes of those with advanced illness are followed, has now spread to 34 states around the country.

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