Physician / Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

In many hospitals, hospices, home care and nursing homes respecting a patient's dying wishes during the last weeks, days, hours or minutes for continuation or discontinuing any further care is often not known to family members, doctors or medical professionals. Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) which provides palliative care (Patients who are terminally ill, seriously ill or chronically ill offered the best delivered care and relief of suffering by medication or other means. 1 The patient's primary doctor works in partnership with patient's attending nurses, social workers and other health providers in palliative care environment, relieve pain and related symptoms of serious or terminal illness. 3) developed standardized Physician (or Medical) Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST or MOLST): Details a dying patient's wishes for receiving or declining to receive further health care to sustain life. 2