Medical Care
Patient Right to Autonomy Act and Advance Care Planning Decision
- Location:Taiwan
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- Update Date:2020/07/20
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The Patient Right to Autonomy Act focuses on the patient itself, it is to ensure that the patient has the right to be informed, choose, and make decisions, and to extend such right to non end-stage patients. A fully capable person over the age of 20 may sign a "advance care planning decision" through the "advance care planning consultation" to pre-determine whether to receive or refuse life-sustaining treatment and artificial nutrition and hydration when he/she is in specific clinical conditions (end-stage patient, irreversible coma, permanent vegetative state, extremely severe dementia and other recognized serious illness).