Feeding tubes shouldn’t be on POLST forms: JAGS opinion paper

Surgically inserted feeding tubes harm patients with dementia, research shows

By Franny White January 31, 2019 Portland, Oregon

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(Left to right) Katie Stowers, D.O., signs a Physicians Order of Life-Sustaining Treatment form completed by Melanie Birnbach of Portland. (OHSU/Corky Miller)

Updated POLST form

(Left to right) Oregon POLST Executive Director Valerie Jimenez waits as Elizabeth Anderson reads an Oregon POLST form with her partner Ron Naito of Portland. (OHSU/Corky Miller)

Updated POLST form

Revised Oregon POLST form, 2019. (OHSU)

Susan Tolle, M.D.

Hands on POLST Form

A copy of the new Oregon Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, form, which was updated in 2019. (OHSU/Corky Miller)