Lesson 2.3 · 3 min
§ 20 Interdisciplinary cooperation
Open in the coursewith narrated slides, a checklist to tick off and a quiz
At a glance
- Work together. In caring for patients you work with doctors of relevant specialties and, where needed, with other health professions and other professions.
- How it shows. Referrals, doctors' letters, shared results and a list of the services you work with.
In detail
What § 20 requires
In caring for patients you work with doctors of relevant specialties and, where necessary, with members of other health professions or other professions § 20.
The regulation doesn't say how to prove it. It shows in what is produced anyway.
What works as proof
- referrals and doctors' letters in the files;
- a list of the specialists, laboratories, nursing services, therapists and social services you work with;
- documented case discussions, where there are any.
Checklist
- There is a current list of the services the practice works with.
- Referrals and doctors' letters are in the files.
- Cooperation with other health professions can be traced in the files.
Quiz
Whom does § 20 require you to work with?
- The Medical Chamber
- Doctors of relevant specialties and, where needed, other health and other professions
- Only doctors of the same specialty
- Only hospitals
Show the answer
The answer is B: Doctors of relevant specialties and, where needed, other health and other professions. § 20 names doctors of relevant specialties and, where necessary, members of other health professions or other professions.
Sources
This lesson's statements rest on:
Not legal advice. What counts is the text of the QS-VO 2024 in the Federal Legal Information System (version of 3 October 2026) and the Austrian Medical Chamber's Hygiene Regulation 2014. Not an offer of ÖQMED, the BIQG or the Medical Chamber.