Changes over time in POLST use and content by race and ethnicity among California nursing home residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) are commonly used for nursing home (NH) residents. Treatment orders differ across race and ethnicity, presumably related to cultural and socioeconomic variation and levels of access to care and trust. Because national efforts focus on addressing the underpinnings of racial and ethnic differences in treatment (i.e., access to care and trust), we describe POLST use and content by race and ethnicity.

Methods

California requires NHs to document POLST completion and content in the Minimum Data Set. We describe POLST completion and content for all California NH residents from 2011 to 2016 (N = 1,120,376). Adjusting for resident characteristics, we compared changes in completion rate and differences by race and ethni

SUBMITTER: Zingmond DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10524124 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature