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A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness

scientific article

A Tool to Assess Patient and Surrogate Knowledge About the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Program

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

A comparison of methods to communicate treatment preferences in nursing facilities: traditional practices versus the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program

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A viable alternative to traditional living wills

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Administrators' perspectives on ethical issues in long-term care research

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Advance Directives in Home Health and Hospice Agencies: United States, 2007

scientific article published on March 10, 2011

An Interim Analysis of an Advance Care Planning Intervention in the Nursing Home Setting.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Appropriate Use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Outpatient Setting

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Artificial Nutrition Belongs on POLST

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Assessing Evidence for Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Programs

scientific article published in June 2016

Assessment of Discordance Between Surrogate Care Goals and Medical Treatment Provided to Older Adults With Serious Illness

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Attitudes and Experiences of Frontline Nursing Home Staff Toward Coronavirus Testing

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Care Consistency With Documented Care Preferences: Methodologic Considerations for Implementing the "Measuring What Matters" Quality Indicator

scientific article published on 24 September 2016

College Women's Fears and Precautionary Behaviors Relating to Acquaintance Rape and Stranger Rape

article by Susan Hickman & Charlene L. Muehlenhard published December 1997 in Psychology of Women Quarterly

Comfort Measures Orders and Hospital Transfers: Insights From the OPTIMISTIC Demonstration Project

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Compassion and Vigilance: Investigators' Strategies To Manage Ethical Concerns in Palliative and End-of-Life Research

scientific article published on June 25, 2012

Compassion fatigue among nurses working with older adults

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Conducting research in community-based care facilities: ethical and regulatory implications.

scientific article published on October 2007

Do Life-sustaining Treatment Orders Match Patient and Surrogate Preferences? The Role of POLST

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Documentation of Advance Directives Among Home Health and Hospice Patients: United States, 2007

scientific article published on May 15, 2011

Effect of Hospice Use on Costs of Care for Long-Stay Nursing Home Decedents

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

End-of-Life Decision Making and Communication of Bereaved Family Members of African Americans with Serious Illness

scientific article published on February 2016

Exploring provider-surrogate communication during POLST discussions for individuals with advanced dementia.

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Factors Associated with Physician Moral Distress Caring for Hospitalized Elderly Patients Needing a Surrogate Decision-maker: a Prospective Study

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Family perceptions of worry, symptoms, and suffering in the dying

scientific article published in January 2004

High-intensity environmental light in dementia: effect on sleep and activity

scientific article published on 21 August 2007

Honoring resident autonomy in long-term care. Special considerations.

scientific article published on January 2004

Honoring treatment preferences near the end of life: the oregon physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) program.

scientific article published on January 2004

Hope for the future: achieving the original intent of advance directives.

scientific article published on November 2005

Hospice use among nursing home and non-nursing home patients

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Hospice use among nursing home patients

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Identifying the Implementation Conditions Associated With Positive Outcomes in a Successful Nursing Facility Demonstration Project

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Impact of ambient bright light on agitation in dementia

scientific article published on October 2010

Improving Nursing Facility Care Through an Innovative Payment Demonstration Project: Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care Phase 2

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Investigating the Avoidability of Hospitalizations of Long Stay Nursing Home Residents: Opportunities for Improvement

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Investigators' successful strategies for working with Institutional Review Boards

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Measurement of quality of care and quality of life at the end of life

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National Standards and State Variation in Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Forms

scientific article published on 06 April 2018

Navigating federalwide assurance requirements when conducting research in community-based care settings

scientific article published in September 2004

Nursing Home Transfers for Behavioral Concerns: Findings from the OPTIMISTIC Demonstration Project

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Nursing Home participation in end-of-life programs: United States, 2004.

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POLST Facilitation in Complex Care Management: A Feasibility Study

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Parental Experiences of Child Participation in a Phase I Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trial: "We Don't Have Time to Waste".

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for nursing home residents with dementia

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Proposed POLST Replacement Creates More Problems than it Solves

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Reducing the Risk of Hospitalization for Nursing Home Residents: Effects and Facility Variation From OPTIMISTIC

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Response to Morrison, Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0272)

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Sampling challenges in end-of-life research: case-finding for family informants

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Stakeholder Perspectives on the Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care (OPTIMISTIC) Project.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Surrogates' experiences of engaging in Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment discussions for persons with advanced dementia

scientific article published on 01 February 2018

Symptom experiences of residents dying in assisted living

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Systematic Advance Care Planning and Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Nursing Facility Residents

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Team-based learning and ethics education in nursing

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

The Complexity of Determining Whether a Nursing Home Transfer Is Avoidable at Time of Transfer.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

The Consistency Between Treatments Provided to Nursing Facility Residents and Orders on the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form

scientific article published on October 22, 2011

The Family Navigator: A Pilot Intervention to Support Intensive Care Unit Family Surrogates

scientific article published on November 2016

The Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, andImproving Symptoms:Transforming Institutional Care approach: preliminary data from the implementation of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services nursing facility demonstration proj

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The POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) paradigm to improve end-of-life care: potential state legal barriers to implementation

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The POLST Program: A Retrospective Review of the Demographics of Use and Outcomes in One Community Where Advance Directives Are Prevalent

scientific article published on January 10, 2012

The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment program: Oregon emergency medical technicians' practical experiences and attitudes

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The Quality of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on November 2016

The Role of the Palliative Care Registered Nurse in the Nursing Facility Setting

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The effect of ambient bright light therapy on depressive symptoms in persons with dementia

scientific article published on 16 October 2007

The patient-doctor relationship and online social networks: results of a national survey

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Trends in opioid use over time: 1997 to 1999.

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Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) paradigm program in the hospice setting

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Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment program for patients being discharged from the hospital to the nursing facility

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment program in Oregon nursing facilities: beyond resuscitation status

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Use of the Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Program in Indiana Nursing Homes

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Use of the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program in the clinical setting: a systematic review of the literature

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Well-Being of Child and Family Participants in Phase 1 Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 01 September 2018