Yale team urges electronic MOLST to improve access and reduce errors

A Yale team presented a policy brief to the MOLST Advisory Council proposing an electronic version of the Medical Orders for Life‑Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) form to improve access and reduce treatment errors. Michael Warner, lead aging policy analyst at the Connecticut General Assembly—s Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, said the project grew from clinician conversations this spring and a student research collaboration over the summer.

Victoria, a Yale master's student working on the brief, told the council that an electronic MOLST would make a patient—s orders immediately accessible across hospital systems…