POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak...

MOLST is an acronym for Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. The MOLST Program is an initiative to facilitate end-of-life medical decision-making...

Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), Physician's Orders on Scope of Treatment (POST) or Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences...

medical treatment, they must keep the patient or representatives informed even if they discourage continued life support. Whether the physician decides...

"Abbreviation List for Medical Record Documentation V20" (PDF). Madison Memorial Hospital. "Title Change". Hanley, Sharita. "PERRLA Eye Assessment: What...

Compassionate Care of California. Retrieved 27 February 2016. "Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 27 February...

case when the patient has an advanced directive, a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form indicating that resuscitation is not desired...

Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, under the title "Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment." The Commission sustained in its findings...

options for disease management after diagnosis. Examples include caregiving, continued treatment, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted...

POLST (Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) form. These medical treatment preference documents are critical, especially for the elderly for whom...

had been developed internationally including Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for those approaching the end of their lives. One...

disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to...

of the pregnancy, a woman must remain on life sustaining treatment until she gives birth with no exception for patients who will be in prolonged severe...

other 'life-sustaining' treatment from the body." On January 26 JPS issued the following statement: "The past eight weeks have been difficult for the Munoz...

capacity had a broad right to choose to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Second, life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn or withheld from an adult patient...

court orders; other countries defer directly to the medical opinions of doctors. Some countries have general legislation allowing for any treatment deemed...

sustaining life, but allowed terminally ill patients to refuse life-prolonging treatment in situations in which a physician believes the treatment's harm...

their next of kin) request it. Doctors can stop giving a patient life-sustaining treatments, such as ventilators and feeding tubes, after being sedated, thus...

to ever receive treatment. At that time, it was believed that the effects of syphilis depended on the race of those affected. Physicians believed that syphilis...

are examples of complementary treatments. About half the practitioners who dispense complementary treatments are physicians, although they tend to be generalists...

Woodruff, William A. "Letting Life Run Its Course: Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment". Scholarly Works: 7 – via Scholarly...

ice baths and cold compresses as a means of treatment for his fever. There is a statue of the Greek physician, Antonius Musa, who treated his fever. The...

someone to appoint a healthcare proxy. Although physicians are allowed to deliver life-saving treatment in emergent situations, in non-emergencies, it...

Wisconsin bishops in warning against the use of Physician (or Provider) Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). The bishops wrote to “encourage all...

(1822–1884) developed theories on genetics for the first time. As Catholicism became a global religion, the Catholic orders and religious and lay people established...

serious trauma cases sustained by both males and females had been treated surgically or orthopedically by a very experienced physician/surgeon with great...

the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available. While sometimes used for nocturnal...

season ten, he returns unknowingly into Alex's life due to being brought to Grey Sloan Hospital for treatment. By then, it has been revealed that he was living...

average course of treatment is 3 to 4 months for an orthopedic case, and 8 months to a lifetime for a neurological patient. A physician orders a Dynasplint...

verification] Increasingly, concern has been voiced over the rise in community treatment orders, medical homes, invasive supervision in homes, in addition to decades...