Decision-making conversations for life-sustaining treatment with seriously ill patients using a Danish version of the US POLST: a qualitative study of patient and physician experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore patients' and physicians' perspectives on a decision-making conversation for life-sustaining treatment, based on the Danish model of the American Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.

Design

Semi-structured interviews following a conversation about preferences for life-sustaining treatment.

Setting

Danish hospitals, nursing homes, and general practitioners' clinics.

Subjects

Patients and physicians.

Main outcome measures

Qualitative analyses of interview data.

Findings

After participating in a conversation about life-sustaining treatment using the Danish POLST form, a total of six patients and five physicians representing different settings and age groups participated in an interview about their experien

SUBMITTER: Tuesen LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090401 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature