The patient can leave the medical service provider facility if their leaving does not pose a threat to other people’s wellbeing.
When the patient decides to leave, especially when it is not medically advised, the treating physician has to make a note in the patient’s medical record whether the patient has notified them about their intention for leaving or they left without notifying the doctor.
If patients who lack decision-making capacity, patients with limited capacity or patients with limited capacity in regard to their patient rights leave the facility without indicating their leaving intention to their treating physician, the facility notifies the legal guardian.
Additionally, the patients or their relatives have to be notified 24 hours before the patients’ hospital discharge.
