# OnCo record polst (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/polst/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "polst" ;
  schema:name "POLST (Portable Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "POLST form"@en, "Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment"@en, "Portable Medical Orders"@en ;
  schema:description "In the US, a POLST form turns the wishes of someone who is seriously ill or very frail into signed medical orders, so emergency teams know which treatments to give or not give. It is optional and is different from an advance directive."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/polst/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_Orders_for_Life-Sustaining_Treatment> ;
  schema:citation <https://polst.org/>, <https://polst.org/about-polst/> ;
  onco:tag "supportive", "us" ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/palliative-care/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hospice-end-of-life/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/advance-care-planning/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/five-wishes/> .