Many patients with advanced cancer receive aggressive treatment near the end of life. The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is an innovation that converts patient preferences ...

All but two states have specific language supporting unilateral clinician decision-making for initiating or maintaining life-sustaining treatment (LST). Requirements, justifications, and oversight ...

It has been confirmed that approximately 8,000 advance directives for life-sustaining treatment, written over about a week, were lost due to the fire at the National Information Resources Service ...

Dear Mr. Premack: I am the agent under my father’s medical power of attorney. He has Alzheimer’s and now, ironically, has terminal cancer. The doctors have been cooperative with implementing do not ...

More than 84,500 individuals have signed an Advance Medical Directive, a legal document refusing life-sustaining treatment if ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A bill to allow a patient advocate to withhold life-sustaining treatment for pregnant individuals has successfully passed the Michigan Senate. Under current state law, an ...