Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in US Nursing Homes: A Case Study of CRNP Engagement in the Care Planning Process

Table 2

Demographic and health care utilization characteristics among nursing home residents who had CRNP participate in care conference, by POLST change in status versus no POLST change in status.

	POLST change in status; 𝑛=14; Mean (standard deviation)	No POLST change in status; 𝑛=46; Mean (standard deviation)
Age in years	75.7 (13.3)	74.3 (15.2)
% Female	71	87%
Religion
Catholic	14%	29%
Protestant	21%	51%
Another religion	7%	7%
No religion	43%*	11%
Unknown	15%	2%
Payer source
Medicaid FFS	86%	57%
Medicare FFS	7%	7%
Medicaid managed care	7%	24%
Medicare managed care	0%	13%
Charlson comorbidity index	4.50 (1.93)	5.11 (1.95)
% Social worker completing original POLST	79%	72%
Days since original POLST completion	707 (542)	724 (746)
Days since original nursing home admission	839 (587)	871 (878)
Days since last nursing home admission	712 (572)	572 (616)
Number of hospital admissions (precare conference)	0.56 (0.96)	1.18 (1.51)
Number of emergency department visits not resulting in hospital admission (precare conference)	1.18 (1.72)	1.06 (2.00)

^∗𝑃<0.05.