References

This section includes carefully selected links to references pertaining to the Community-wide End-of-Life Community Initiative, Advance Care Planning, Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), palliative care, Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) and the National Quality Forum.

If you wish to share references on this web site relevant to the Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) Program or other related topics, please forward the reference to Patricia.Bomba@lifethc.com.

Community-wide End-of-life/Palliative Care Initiative

The Community-Wide End-of-life/Palliative Care Initiative was launched in May 2001. The original vision for the Rochester community has been expanded and envisions that New York State will be a preeminent leader in advocating for facilitated discussions on planning for end-of-life care and for ensuring excellence in the provision of End-of-Life/Palliative Care, serving all segments of our community.

Rochester Community End-of-life Report [1/29/01- pdf]
Rochester Community End-of-life Survey Results Presentation [1/20/01- ppt]

Advance Care Planning

Advance Care Planning is a process of planning for future medical care if a person is unable to make health care decisions. It involves identification of a trusted individual to make health care decisions, clarification of values, beliefs and goals of care and putting these wishes in writing.

Bomba, P.A. Advance Care Planning Along the Health Continuum. The Case Manager. 2005.
Bibliography: Advance Care Planning
Bibliography: Myths and Truths of CPR
Bibliography: Tube Feeding/PEGs

Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)

MOLST in New York State (NYS) is an approved Physicians Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm Program. References are presented in chronological order with most recent first:

Bomba, PA and Orem, K. 2012. eMOLST and Electronic Health Records. Health Law Journal 17(2): 77-83. Published by the New York State Bar Association.
Bomba, P.A. Discussing Patient Preferences and End-of-Life Care. Journal of the Monroe County Medical Society, 7th District Branch, MSSNY. 2011; April 2011: 12-15.
Bomba, P.A., Leven, D.C., Morrissey, M.B. (2011). Key Role of Social Work in Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution Process: Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) Program in New York and shared Medical Decision Making at End-of-Life. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, January - March 2011, Volume VII, Issue 1, 56-82.
Bomba, P.A. Landmark Legislation in New York Affirms Benefits of Two-Step Approach to Advance Care Planning Including MOLST: A Model of Shared, Informed Medical Decision-Making and Honoring Patient Preferences for Care at the End-of-Life. Widener Law Review, 2011, Volume XVII Issue 2, 475-500.
Grimaldi, J.D., Lawlor T.R. (2009) MOLST: New York State's Medical Orders to Honor the Wishes of a Seriously Ill Patient. NYSBA Elder Law Attorney 19:2,
15 - 17.
Bomba, P.A. Producer MOLST DVD - Informational and educational curriculum: Writing Your Final Chapter: Know Your Choices.....Share Your Wishes" and "Honoring Patient Preferences: The Role of Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) in New York State."
Fairbanks, R.J., Shah, M.N., Lerner, E.B., Ilangovan, K., Pennington, E.C., Schneider, S.M. (2007) Epidemiology and Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Rochester, New York. Resuscitation. 72, 415-424.
Bomba, P.A., Vermilyea, D. (2006) Integrating POLST Into Palliative Care Guidelines: A Paradigm Shift in Advance Care Planning in Oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 4:8, 819-829.
Bomba, P.A. (2006) Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST): A Paradigm Shift in Advance Care Planning. Health Law Journal, 2006; 11:3,
39 - 51.
Bomba, P.A., Caprio, T.V., Gillespie, S.M., Richardson, K. Community Implementation of the Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) to Improve Advance Care Directives. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55(1) S44.
Olden A., Quill T., Ladwig, S. End-of-life Care and MOLST Completion. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55(1) S159.

Palliative Care

Bomba, P.A. Enabling the transition to hospice care through effective palliative care. The Case Manager. 2005; 16:48 - 52.

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a process that translates seriously ill patient's goals for care into easily identifiable, portable and renewable medical orders that follow the patient across care settings. Find out if your State has a POLST Paradigm Program.

Bomba, P.A., Kemp, M. and Black, J.S. POLST: An improvement over traditional advance directives. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. July 2012, Vol. 79, Issue 7, p. 457-64.
Hickman, S.E. , Nelson, C.A., Moss, A.H., Tolle, S.W., Perrin, N.A. and Hammes, B.J. The Consistency Between Treatments Provided to Nursing Facility Residents and Orders on the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. November 2011, Volume 59, Issue 11, p. 2091-99.
Sabatino, C.P., Karp, N. Improving Advanced Illness Care: The Evolution of State POLST Programs. AARP Public Policy Institute. Copyright 2011, AARP.
Bomba, P.A., Sabatino, C.P. POLST: An Emerging Model for End-of-Life Care Planning. The ElderLaw Report. February 2009, VolumeXX, Number 7, 1-5.
Hickman, E.S., Sabatino, C.P., Moss, A.H., Wehrle Nester, J. (Spring 2008). The POLST (Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm to Improve End-of-Life Care: Potential State Legal Barriers to Implementation. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Spring 2008, 119 - 140.
Bomba, P.A., Vermilyea, D. Integrating POLST Into Palliative Care Guidelines: A Paradigm Shift in Advance Care Planning in Oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. 2006; 4:8, 819-829.
View additional POLST research and references at POLST.org

National Quality Forum

The National Quality Forum is a private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting. The National Quality Forum has developed:

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