Excel · dataset · 2024
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) (ARCHIVED)
Listed in California Open Data
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Description
Currently CHCQ is waiting to hear back from CMS on 3 outstanding POLST variables. Once that information is received, CHCQ Informatics Branch will provide the updated dataset to UCLA.
In the meantime, please submit your POLST data request to the CHCQ inbox. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has created a file of 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 December 31, 2023.
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POLST treatment preferences are actionable as a Doctor’s Order if accompanied with the signatures of either the patient or a legally recognized decision maker, and that of a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant. Counts of nursing homes and of distinct nursing home residents are also provided. Visuals include percentages of California skilled nursing facility residents with completed or unsigned POLST forms statewide and by county, and completion of medical treatment sections of signed POLST forms statewide and by county.
Resources include POLST forms and All Facility Letters (AFL) sent by CDPH to facilities regarding POLST and Section S information.
Links
Get the data
- All resource data data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/9a8226da… ↗
download · from data ca gov
- California SNF POLST Summary File data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/6c61671d… ↗
download · from data ca gov
- Lookup Table data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/bcd7e7e6… ↗
download · from data ca gov
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/7eb9e220… ↗
Visual 1: Completed or Unsigned POLST Forms - by Year and County
download · from data ca gov
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/b1fe1fb8… ↗
Visual 2: Completion of Medical Treatment Sections - by Year and County
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- POLST White Paper data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/ab8fc961… ↗
download · from data ca gov
- POLST-related AFLs data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/0168f630… ↗
download · from data ca gov
- POLST Form Versions data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/156c1977-6b4a-486b-b99e-2208defb1ec0/resource/fbdb17e7… ↗
download · from data ca gov
Where it is published
- California Open Data dataset page data.ca.gov/dataset/physician-orders-for-life-sustaining-treatment-polst-a… ↗
landing page · from data ca gov
Documentation and papers
- Publisher page cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/LandCProgramHome.aspx ↗
documentation · from data ca gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ca.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=ba7dd81a-4b55-495b-b9c9-d4eb5ea11… ↗
metadata API · from data ca gov
Topics
- Stated by source
- Health and Human Services
- From keywords
- Medicine & Health
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Open Data | ba7dd81a-4b55-495b-b9c9-d4eb5ea1115e | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].ckan_group:data_ca_gov:health-human-services | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 |