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Post POLST patients dying in nursing homes
Author: juliegethics
Date: Mar 9, 2011 2:06 pm
followup question from POLST and palliative care teleconference.
When a POLST prgram is set in place, Susan Tolle said that more patients would die in place, in nursing homes or at home, hopefully with hospice. How is that effecting the capacities of hospice and palliative care programs? Do we know anything about the quality of deaths for these people?
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+ Re:POLST patients dying in nursing homes (by MargieCarley on 03/10/2011)
Julie

In Oregon we have one of the lowest rates of in hospital deaths and one of the highest rates of death in private homes, community based care facilities and nursing homes.

I don't have any specific research data on the quality of deaths for persons dying in nursing homes.

We have a list of POLST related reserach that includes clients in nursing homes on the www.polst.org website, under the research tab.

Margaret M. Carley, RN, JD
Executive Director
National POLST Paradigm Task Force

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