A New Jersey doctor has created a new tool to help patients and doctors fill out POLST forms. That's short for Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. Without it, Dr. David Barile said, patients at the end stages of life may get too much of the wrong kind of care.
Health care can be really fragmented, and that's making it harder for patients at the end stages of life to reach the best decisions about their care, according to Barile, a geriatrician in Princeton.
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