POLST Portability

One of POLST’s most important features is that it travels with patients as they move from one residential or medical setting to another, thereby ensuring that the physician orders travel with them.

POLST is making a difference. Studies have shown that among patients with POLST forms, treatment preferences were respected 98% of the time, and no one received unwanted CPR, intubation, intensive care, or feeding tubes. As a result, POLST has helped to close the gap between what end-of-life treatment patients want and what they receive.