Delaware SB274 amends laws to establish the Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment Act, creating standardized portable medical orders for.
Delaware SB274 amends Titles 16 and 21 of the Delaware Code to establish the Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment Act. This act creates a standardized document, known as a DMOST POLST form, for patients with serious illness or frailty whose health-care practitioner would not be surprised if they died within the next year. The DMOST POLST form is not an advance health-care directive but expresses the patient's wishes regarding the scope of treatment through medical orders. It is applicable across health-care settings, is reviewable, and is revocable.
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