References

This section includes carefully selected links to references pertaining to advance care planning, Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), pain management and palliative care.

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 Community 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 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 in 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.

• Bibliography: Advance Care Planning
• Bibliography: Myths and Truths of CPR
• Bibiliography: Tube Feeding/PEGs
  

Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)

References are presented in chronological order with most recent first:

Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) is New York State’s Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm Program.

Bomba, P.A., Sabatino, C.P. (2009) POLST: An Emerging Model for End-of-Life Care Planning.  The ElderLaw Report 50:7, 1 - 5.

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. 

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. New York State Health Law Journal 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.

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a two-sided form designed to help health care professionals honor the end-of-life treatment desires of their patients. The form has physician orders that follow patient wishes and treatment intentions, and enhances the appropriateness and quality of patient care. POLST Paradigm forms are now available in many states and may have a different name. We use the term POLST Paradigm to describe these programs in general.

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:

• National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Framework and Preferred Practices for Hospice and Palliative Care

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