Swiss Civil Code

¹ The doc­tor shall ex­am­ine and in­ter­view the pa­tient in per­son.

² The hos­pit­al­isa­tion or­der shall con­tain at least the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

1.

the place and date of the ex­am­in­a­tion;

2.

the name of the doc­tor;

3.

the dia­gnos­is, reas­ons there­for and the pur­pose of hos­pit­al­isa­tion;

4.

in­struc­tions on rights of ap­peal.

³ An ap­peal does not have sus­pens­ive ef­fect un­less the doc­tor or the com­pet­ent court or­ders oth­er­wise.

⁴ A copy of the hos­pit­al­isa­tion or­der shall be giv­en to the pa­tient; a fur­ther copy shall be giv­en to the in­sti­tu­tion on the pa­tient's ad­mis­sion.

⁵ The doc­tor shall if pos­sible no­ti­fy a per­son closely re­lated to the pa­tient in writ­ing on his or her com­mit­tal and on the rights of ap­peal.