Improving advanced illness care : the evolution of state POLST programs Research report (AARP Public Policy Institute) Advance Care Planning -- legislation & jurisprudence Advance Care Planning -- trends Advance Directives -- legislation & jurisprudence Advance Directives -- trends Resuscitation Orders -- legislation & jurisprudence Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a promising program to elicit and honor the treatment goals of people with advanced progressive illness or frailty. POLST began in Oregon in the early 1990s. By the beginning of 2010, at least 12 states had adopted the POLST paradigm, and proponents in most other states were developing programs. The current study explores the experience of 12 states with POLST programs to identify factors that helped or hindered adoption and meaningful implementation of the protocol. Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2011 Sabatino, Charles P. Karp, Naomi. AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization)) Technical Report Text Illustrations nlm:nlmuid-101564996-pdf 101564996 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101564996 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0