Patient Right to Autonomy Act Article 3
The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:1. Life-sustaining treatment: necessary medical measures that can prolong the lives of patients, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mechanical life-supportsystem, blood products, special treatments for specific diseases, and antibiotics against severe infections etc..2. Artificial nutrition and hydration: Provision of food or fluids via tubes or other invasive means.3. Advance decision: A prior written and signed statement expressing the willingness of a person to accept or refuse life-sustaining treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration, or other types of medical care and a good death when he/she is in specific clinical conditions.4. Declarant: A person who makes an advance decision in writing.5. Health care agent: A person who has received written authorization from a declarant to express his or her wishes on his or her behalf when he or she is unconscious or unable to clearly express his or her wishes6. Advance care planning: The process of communication between the patient and medical service providers, relatives, and other related parties regarding the proper care that shall be offered to the patient and the options he or she has to receive or refuse life-preserving treatments and artificial nutrition and hydration when the patient is in specific clinical conditions, unconscious or unable to clearly express his or her wishes.7. Palliative care: Relieving and supportive medical treatment provided to alleviate or eliminate the patient’s physical, psychological, and spiritual suffering to improve his or her life quality.
中文原文 病人自主權利法第3條
本法名詞定義如下：
一、維持生命治療：指心肺復甦術、機械式維生系統、血液製品、為特定疾病而設之專門治療、重度感染時所給予之抗生素等任何有可能延長病人生命之必要醫療措施。
二、人工營養及流體餵養：指透過導管或其他侵入性措施餵養食物與水分。
三、預立醫療決定：指事先立下之書面意思表示，指明處於特定臨床條件時，希望接受或拒絕之維持生命治療、人工營養及流體餵養或其他與醫療照護、善終等相關意願之決定。
四、意願人：指以書面方式為預立醫療決定之人。
五、醫療委任代理人：指接受意願人書面委任，於意願人意識昏迷或無法清楚表達意願時，代理意願人表達意願之人。
六、預立醫療照護諮商：指病人與醫療服務提供者、親屬或其他相關人士所進行之溝通過程，商討當病人處於特定臨床條件、意識昏迷或無法清楚表達意願時，對病人應提供之適當照護方式以及病人得接受或拒絕之維持生命治療與人工營養及流體餵養。
七、緩和醫療：指為減輕或免除病人之生理、心理及靈性痛苦，施予緩解性、支持性之醫療照護，以增進其生活品質。
一、維持生命治療：指心肺復甦術、機械式維生系統、血液製品、為特定疾病而設之專門治療、重度感染時所給予之抗生素等任何有可能延長病人生命之必要醫療措施。
二、人工營養及流體餵養：指透過導管或其他侵入性措施餵養食物與水分。
三、預立醫療決定：指事先立下之書面意思表示，指明處於特定臨床條件時，希望接受或拒絕之維持生命治療、人工營養及流體餵養或其他與醫療照護、善終等相關意願之決定。
四、意願人：指以書面方式為預立醫療決定之人。
五、醫療委任代理人：指接受意願人書面委任，於意願人意識昏迷或無法清楚表達意願時，代理意願人表達意願之人。
六、預立醫療照護諮商：指病人與醫療服務提供者、親屬或其他相關人士所進行之溝通過程，商討當病人處於特定臨床條件、意識昏迷或無法清楚表達意願時，對病人應提供之適當照護方式以及病人得接受或拒絕之維持生命治療與人工營養及流體餵養。
七、緩和醫療：指為減輕或免除病人之生理、心理及靈性痛苦，施予緩解性、支持性之醫療照護，以增進其生活品質。