This dashboard shows the prevalence of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) documents in California, limited to residents in skilled nursing facilities (SNF). This file enables a comparison of the proportion of nursing home residents that are reported to have a completed POLST form in their medical chart, by county and year, between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2019.
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment 2011-2019 (Excel)
Data Dictionary (Excel)
Lookup Table (Excel)
Visual 1: Completed or Unsigned POLST Forms - by Year and County (PDF)
Visual 2: Completion of Medical Treatment Sections - by Year and County (PDF)
White paper (PDF)
POLST Form