Checklist for your inpatient stay

Please bring along: Complete corona vaccination certificates

The vaccination status of all patients is documented upon admission. To ensure a smooth process and avoid waiting times, please bring all coronavirus vaccination documents with you and check that they are complete in advance:

Vaccination certificate with QR codes:

  • Please check in advance on your mobile phone that all vaccination certificates have been scanned and can be accessed via the QR code.
  • Notes: There is a separate QR code for each corona vaccination, which must be available on the mobile phone. Example: For three vaccinations, a total of 3 QR codes must be available for each vaccination certificate. The display on the mobile phone 3/3 or 2/2 only means that the last certificate has been scanned. If you are unsure, please also bring the written QR code or the vaccination certificate in paper form.

Vaccination certificates with vaccination card or alternative form:

  • Please check that all corona vaccinations are recorded in the vaccination certificate or on an alternative document.

 


When packing your bag for your hospitalisation, the following items should not be missing:

For your admission
  • Referral slip from your family doctor or specialist
  • Insurance card
For your treatment
  • Medication plan (with barcode) and all medication in its original packaging that you take at home
  • Current preliminary findings, e.g. X-rays, CT/MRI, ECG or EEG, blood results, etc.
Doctor's letters
  • If available, living will and health care proxy (see below for further information)
  • If available: Allergy pass, vaccination pass, X-ray pass, diabetic pass, blood group pass
For your stay
  • Your aids (e.g. wheelchair, rollator, walking stick, glasses, hearing aid)
  • Comfortable clothing
  • Towels
  • Cosmetics and toiletries
  • To pass the time: books, magazines, MP3 player with headphones
  • Contact details of relatives and friends
Please note

When you receive your inpatient admission appointment, please clarify whether you need to be sober on the day of admission.

Valuables

If possible, please do not bring any valuables with you, as you are liable for any loss. For indispensable valuables, e.g. your watch or wallet, you will find a small safe deposit box in the wardrobe in your patient room in Surgery I Dermatology and in Psychosomatics.

Further information on living wills and health care proxies

In a living will, you can specify how you would like to be treated medically in a situation in which you can no longer decide for yourself. In this way, you can preserve your right to self-determination and influence treatment even if you are unable to make decisions.

In a health care proxy, you can authorise one or more people to represent you in decisions about your medical treatment if you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself.

Further information on the subject of living wills and health care proxies can be found, for example

Patient consent for medical research

Dear patient, Dear patient,

If you receive medical treatment at the University Hospital in Ulm for diagnosis or therapy, patient data will be collected from you as part of your treatment and biomaterials (tissue and body fluids) may also be obtained, e.g. as part of blood samples, biopsies or surgical procedures. This patient data and biomaterials can be of considerable value for medical research.

Medical research is necessary to continuously improve the early detection, treatment and prevention of diseases, and the knowledge we gain from your patient data and biomaterials can potentially contribute a great deal to this. We would therefore like to ask you to make your patient data and biomaterials available to us for medical research purposes. Your patient data will be collected in a database operated by Ulm University Hospital. The quality-controlled long-term storage of the biomaterials provided by you will take place in a biobank at Ulm University Hospital.

Your consent is voluntary. If you do not wish to participate or wish to withdraw your consent at a later date, you will not suffer any disadvantages. To withdraw your consent, simply tick the boxes to be changed in the patient consent form below and send it to us with your signature (and details that allow us to contact you). If this is too time-consuming for you, you can inform us informally in writing of the points you wish to revoke.

Further information:

  • Medical Informatics Initiative: www.medizininformatik-initiative.de

  • We are a member of the DIFUTURE consortium , one of the four consortia selected by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for funding during the development and networking phase of the Medical Informatics Initiative.

  • We fully adhere to the recommendations in the handout on the use of nationally harmonised patient information and consent documents, which has been reviewed and approved by the Conference of Independent Federal and State Data Protection Authorities.

  • We use the latest version (1.7.2), which was published as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative. In particular, this allows you to authorise us to use data from previous treatments for scientific purposes. This concerns data available at the University Hospital that can go back up to 15 years.

  • In addition, this form would also allow you to consent to the transfer of your data to countries with a level of data protection that is not adequate for the EU (such as the USA). However, the "International Data Transfers" working group of the German Data Protection Conference (with all state data protection officers) has expressed legal concerns that a corresponding data transfer may be based on this alone. For this reason, we do not use these sections (conspicuously greyed out in the form). If necessary, a separate additional agreement with you would be required for such a transfer.

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