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Effect of a Disease-Specific Advance Care Planning Intervention on End-of-Life Care by Kirchhoff, Karin T., Hammes, Bernard J., Kehl, Karen A., Briggs, Linda A., Brown, Roger L.

“…Objectives To compare patient preferences for end‐of‐life care with care received at the end of life. Design A randomized controlled trial was conducted with…”
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Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program in the Clinical Setting: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Hickman, Susan E., Keevern, Elisabeth, Hammes, Bernard J.

“…The Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a palliative care tool that contains standardized, actionable medical orders. It is designed…”
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A Comparative, Retrospective, Observational Study of the Prevalence, Availability, and Specificity of Advance Care Plans in a County that Implemented an Advance Care Planning Microsystem by Hammes, Bernard J., Rooney, Brenda L., Gundrum, Jacob D.

“…OBJECTIVES: To determine whether outcomes have changed over time for a managed, systematic approach to advance care planning (ACP). DESIGN: Retrospective…”
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A complex regional intervention to implement advance care planning in one town's nursing homes: Protocol of a controlled inter-regional study by In der Schmitten, Jürgen, Rothärmel, Sonja, Mellert, Christine, Rixen, Stephan, Hammes, Bernard J, Briggs, Linda, Wegscheider, Karl, Marckmann, Georg

“…Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an emerging strategy to ensure that well-reflected, meaningful and clearly documented treatment preferences are available and…”
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Communication, trust, and making choices: advance care planning four years on by Romer, Anna L, Hammes, Bernard J

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The Consistency Between Treatments Provided to Nursing Facility Residents and Orders on the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form by Hickman, Susan E., Nelson, Christine A., Moss, Alvin H., Tolle, Susan W., Perrin, Nancy A., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Objectives To evaluate the consistency between treatments provided and Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) orders. Design Retrospective…”
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A Comparison of Methods to Communicate Treatment Preferences in Nursing Facilities: Traditional Practices Versus the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program by Hickman, Susan E., Nelson, Christine A., Perrin, Nancy A., Moss, Alvin H., Hammes, Bernard J., Tolle, Susan W.

“…OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between two methods to communicate treatment preferences (Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST)…”
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Advance Care Planning in Frail Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial by Overbeek, Anouk, Korfage, Ida J., Jabbarian, Lea J., Billekens, Pascalle, Hammes, Bernard J., Polinder, Suzanne, Severijnen, Johan, Swart, Siebe J., Witkamp, Frederika E., van der Heide, Agnes, Rietjens, Judith A.C.

“…Objectives To determine the effectiveness of advance care planning (ACP) in frail older adults. Design Cluster randomized controlled trial. Setting Residential…”
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Reasons for discordance and concordance between POLST orders and current treatment preferences by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L., Sudore, Rebecca L., Hammes, Bernard J., Sachs, Greg A.

“…Background The reasons for discordance between advance care planning (ACP) documentation and current preferences are not well understood. The POLST form offers…”
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POLST recall, concordance, and decision quality outcomes among nursing home residents and surrogate decision-makers by Hickman, Susan E, Sudore, Rebecca L, Torke, Alexia M, Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L, Hammes, Bernard J

“…POLST orders are actionable in an emergency, so it is important that the decisions be of high quality and concordant with current preferences. The goal of this…”
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Factors associated with concordance between POLST orders and current treatment preferences by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Background POLST is widely used to document the treatment preferences of nursing facility residents as orders, but it is unknown how well previously completed…”
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Do Life-sustaining Treatment Orders Match Patient and Surrogate Preferences? The Role of POLST by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Smith, Nicholette Heim, Myers, Anne L., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Background It is essential to high-quality medical care that life-sustaining treatment orders match the current, values-based preferences of patients or their…”
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Respecting Choices® and advance directives in a diverse community by Pecanac, Kristen E, Repenshek, Mark F, Tennenbaum, David, Hammes, Bernard J

“…Respecting Choices® is a program designed and verified to improve advance care planning, yet it has not been tested in racially/ethnically diverse communities…”
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Effect of a Disease-Specific Planning Intervention on Surrogate Understanding of Patient Goals for Future Medical Treatment by Kirchhoff, Karin T., Hammes, Bernard J., Kehl, Karen A., Briggs, Linda A., Brown, Roger L.

“…OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a disease‐specific planning process can improve surrogate understanding of goals of patients with life‐limiting illnesses for…”
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Artificial Nutrition Belongs on POLST by Hickman, Susan E., Vandenbroucke, Amy, Carney, John, Sandler, Victor, Lum, Hillary D., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…See the Reply by Tolle et al…”
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Reasons for Discordance Between Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences and Medical Orders in Nursing Facilities Without POLST by Heim Smith, Nicholette L., Sudore, Rebecca L., Myers, Anne L., Hammes, Bernard J., Hickman, Susan E.

“…Background Life-sustaining treatment (LST) orders are important communication tools used to ensure preference-concordant care at the end of life. Recent…”
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Experiences with and outcomes of Advance Care Planning in bereaved relatives of frail older patients: a mixed methods study by Overbeek, Anouk, Korfage, Ida J, Hammes, Bernard J, van der Heide, Agnes, Rietjens, Judith A C

“…Abstract Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) may prepare relatives of frail older patients for future decision-making. Objective to investigate (1) how…”
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Use of the Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Program in Indiana Nursing Homes by Hickman, Susan E., Sudore, Rebecca L., Sachs, Greg A., Torke, Alexia M., Myers, Anne L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Objectives To assess the use of the Indiana Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form to record nursing home (NH) resident treatment preferences and…”
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A Tool to Assess Patient and Surrogate Knowledge About the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Program by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Myers, Anne L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Hammes, Bernard J.

“…It is especially important that patients are well informed when making high-stakes, preference-sensitive decisions like those on the Physician Orders for…”
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The POLST program: a retrospective review of the demographics of use and outcomes in one community where advance directives are prevalent by Hammes, Bernard J, Rooney, Brenda L, Gundrum, Jacob D, Hickman, Susan E, Hager, Nickijo

“…Determine the use and utility of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program in a community where powers of attorney for health care…”
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