Policies and Standards - Guidance to Clinicians & Health Systems

Click here to learn more about the changes to the Oregon POLST form effective January 2023.

• A video explaining why not to count POLST forms as outlined in an editorial by Susan Tolle, MD in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Aligning POLST Orders with Wishes: Time to Put Evidence into Practice.

• Tolle SW. Aligning POLST Orders with Wishes: Time to Put Evidence into Practice. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2021 April 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17150.

• Do Not Count POLST Forms as an Advance Care Planning Quality Measure - June 2018

• Oregon DHS Information Memorandum Transmittal - Developmental Disabilities Services regarding Current (2023) Oregon POLST Form

• Office of Developmental Disabilities Services (ODDS) Fact Sheet on Oregon POLST - 5/24/2023

• Adult Foster Home Provider Alert - Dec 2022

• Community Based Care Provider Alert: Assisted Living, Residential Care, Memory Care Facilities - Dec 2022

• Nursing Facility Provider Alert - Dec 2022

• Short version - May 2017

• Long version (includes supplemental cases) - May 2017

• Oregon American College of Emergency Physicians Recommends Protocol to Check POLST in the Emergency Department - Sept 2019

• Recommendation for POLST EHR One-Click Access - Oct 2018

• Oregon Does Not Endorse the 2019 “Uniform POLST Form”: Six Essential POLST Form Element Recommendations - Sept 2019

• Removal of Section about Artificially Administered Nutrition - Jan 2019

  • “Time to Remove Feeding Tubes from POLST” - GeriPal Podcast, 2/15/19
  • Tolle SW, Jimenez VM, Eckstrom E. It is Time to Remove Feeding Tubes From POLST Forms. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Mar;67(3):626-628. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15775. Epub 2019 Jan 31.

  • Tolle SW, Jimenez VM, Eckstrom E. Reply to Artificial Nutrition Belongs on POLST J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Sept;67(9):1987-1989. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16090. Epub 2019 Aug 14.

  • Oregon Academy of Family Physicians Endorses Removal of Artificially Administered Nutrition Section - Jan 2020
  • Oregon American College of Emergency Physicians Endorses Removal of Tube Feeding Section - Sept 2019
  • Oregon Hospice & Palliative Care Association Endorses Removal of Artificially Administered Nutrition Section - Jan 2020
  • Oregon Geriatrics Society Endorses Removal of Artificially Administered Nutrition Section - Nov 2019

• Oregon POLST Coalition’s Reaffirms Endorsement of PAs Ability to Sign POLST Forms - Oct 2019

• Summary of Recommendations for POLST Form Elements Changes: 1993 through June 2018

• Sharing POLST Policies and Innovations related to COVID-19 - April 2020