Resources: The National POLST Form and Guides
The National POLST Paradigm has released the first national POLST (Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) form, along with two related patient guides and in-depth guide for professionals.
The National POLST form was created because having a single form will make it easier, among other things, to:
- Know and honor patient treatment wishes throughout the United States;
- Conduct research and quality assurance activities, creating shared data for generalizable knowledge; and
- Educate about POLST to patients and providers so the process and form are understood and appropriately implemented everywhere.
The form is the product of almost two years of interviews, consensus building, feedback, compromise and iterative versions of the form and patient guides. It represents a major step towards national consensus; the patient guides were created to increase patient engagement with the POLST process and form.
Support was provided by The Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, with additional support from The John A. Hartford Foundation.
To go to the POLST page, click here.
To go to the POLST form, click here.
To go to the patient guides, click here.
To go to the professionals form guide, click here.
To read the press release, click here.
To learn about JAHF's co-funding, click here.