Database
Management System
Case Studies
Case Study 1
Hospital Management System
Aim: XYZ hospital is a multi specialty hospital that includes a number of departments, rooms,
doctors, nurses, compounders, and other staff working in the hospital. Patients having different
kinds of ailments come to the hospital and get checkup done from the concerned doctors. If
required they are admitted in the hospital and discharged after treatment.
The aim of this case study is to design and develop a database for the hospital to maintain the
records of various departments, rooms, and doctors in the hospital. It also maintains records of
the regular patients, patients admitted in the hospital, the check up of patients done by the
doctors, the patients that have been operated, and patients discharged from the hospital.
Description: In hospital, there are many departments like Orthopedic, Pathology, Emergency,
Dental, Gynecology, Anesthetics, I.C.U., Blood Bank, Operation Theater, Laboratory, M.R.I.,
Neurology, Cardiology, Cancer Department, Corpse, etc. There is an OPD where patients come
and get a card (that is, entry card of the patient) for check up from the concerned doctor. After
making entry in the card, they go to the concerned doctor’s room and the doctor checks up
their ailments. According to the ailments, the doctor either prescribes medicine or admits the
patient in the concerned department. The patient may choose either private or general room
according to his/her need. But before getting admission in the hospital, the patient has to fulfill
certain formalities of the hospital like room charges, etc. After the treatment is completed, the
doctor discharges the patient. Before discharging from the hospital, the patient again has to
complete certain formalities of the hospital like balance charges, test charges, operation
charges (if any), blood charges, doctors’ charges, etc.
Next we talk about the doctors of the hospital. There are two types of the doctors in the
hospital, namely, regular doctors and call on doctors. Regular doctors are those doctors who
come to the hospital daily. Calls on doctors are those doctors who are called by the hospital if
the concerned doctor is not available.
Table Description:
Following are the tables along with constraints used in Hospital Management database.
1. DEPARTMENT: This table consists of details about the various departments in the
hospital. The information stored in this table includes department name, department
location, and facilities available in that department.
Constraint: Department name will be unique for each department.
2. ALL_DOCTORS: This table stores information about all the doctors working for the
hospital and the departments they are associated with. Each doctor is given an identity
number starting with DR or DC prefixes only.
Constraint: Identity number is unique for each doctor and the corresponding
department should exist in DEPARTMENT table.
3. DOC_REG: This table stores details of regular doctors working in the hospital. Doctors
are referred to by their doctor number. This table also stores personal details of doctors
like name, qualification, address, phone number, salary, date of joining, etc.
Constraint: Doctor’s number entered should contain DR only as a prefix and must exist
in ALL_DOCTORS table.
4. DOC_ON_CALL: This table stores details of doctors called by hospital when additional
doctors are required. Doctors are referred to by their doctor number. Other personal
details like name, qualification, fees per call, payment due, address, phone number, etc.,
are also stored.
Constraint: Doctor’s number entered should contain DC only as a prefix and must exist
in ALL_DOCTORS table.
5. PAT_ENTRY: The record in this table is created when any patient arrives in the hospital
for a check up. When patient arrives, a patient number is generated which acts as a
primary key. Other details like name, age, sex, address, city, phone number, entry date,
name of the doctor referred to, diagnosis, and department name are also stored. After
storing the necessary details patient is sent to the doctor for check up.
Constraint: Patient number should begin with prefix PT. Sex should be M or F only.
Doctor’s name and department referred must exist.
6. PAT_CHKUP: This table stores the details about the patients who get treatment from
the doctor referred to. Details like patient number from patient entry table, doctor
number, date of check up, diagnosis, and treatment are stored. One more field status is
used to indicate whether patient is admitted, referred for operation or is a regular
patient to the hospital. If patient is admitted, further details are stored in PAT_ADMIT
table. If patient is referred for operation, the further details are stored in PAT_OPR table
and if patient is a regular patient to the hospital, the further details are stored in
PAT_REG table.
Constraint: Patient number should exist in PAT_ENTRY table and it should be unique.
7. PAT_ADMIT: When patient is admitted, his/her related details are stored in this table.
Information stored includes patient number, advance payment, mode of payment, room
number, department, date of admission, initial condition, diagnosis, treatment, number
of the doctor under whom treatment is done, attendant name, etc.
Constraint: Patient number should exist in PAT_ENTRY table. Department, doctor
number, room number must be valid.
8. PAT_DIS: An entry is made in this table whenever a patient gets discharged from the
hospital. Each entry includes details like patient number, treatment given, treatment
advice, payment made, mode of payment, date of discharge, etc.
Constraint: Patient number should exist in PAT_ENTRY table.
9. PAT_REG: Details of regular patients are stored in this table. Information stored includes
date of visit, diagnosis, treatment, medicine recommended, status of treatment, etc.
Constraint: Patient number should exist in patient entry table. There can be multiple
entries of one patient as patient might be visiting hospital repeatedly for check up and
there will be entry for patient’s each visit.
10. PAT_OPR: If patient is operated in the hospital, his/her details are stored in this table.
Information stored includes patient number, date of admission, date of operation,
number of the doctor who conducted the operation, number of the operation theater in
which operation was carried out, type of operation, patient’s condition before and after
operation, treatment advice, etc.
Constraint: Patient number should exist in PAT_ENTRY table. Department, doctor
number should exist or should be valid.
11. ROOM_DETAILS: It contains details of all rooms in the hospital. The details stored in this
table include room number, room type (general or private), status (whether occupied or
not), if occupied, then patient number, patient name, charges per day, etc.
Constraint: Room number should be unique. Room type can only be G or P and status
can only be Y or N