Patient rights
In Austria patients can essentially rely on the following patient rights:
Law: | Legal basis: |
To be informed | Austrian Physicians Law |
To be conscientiously looked after | Austrian Physicians Law |
| before a medical treatment or prior to surgery to be asked (even "small" surgery), whether one agrees (Consent) | Criminal law, hospital law |
To human dignity and recognition of maturity | Constitutional law, general civil code |
That the treating person or the administrators of the medical data respect the right to the privacy and personal information | Data protection law, Physician's law |
To social assistance | Various welfare laws of the federal states |
To report or accuse medical errors | Human rights convention, basic law |
To indicate the injuries, tornments, neglect, etc. | General civil code, convention on human rights, medical law |
To the first aid | Penal law, physician's law, hospital law |
auf soziale Hilfestellung vor Entlassung aus dem Krankenhaus | Hospitals Act |
auf Hilfe bzw. Rat durch den Ombudsmann | Various welfare laws of the federal states |
