ABSTRACT
Clinical database typical contain a significant amount of
temporary information. Information is often crucial in medical decision support
system. This project involves a careful study of an existing manual system, the
designing and implementing a clinical patient database system, using Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki as the case
study. The major areas considered are the General Administrative Unit, the
Pharmaceutical unit the Nursing Unit, the Laboratory Unit the Public Health Unit the wards and the medical record
unit. With the comprehensive information obtained from the Teaching Hospital, medical centre and from other
different medical sources, I developed a clinical patient database framework for
managing the operations of the clinic. This
software will help a quick access to patient medical records such as
patient name, patient diagnosis, prescriptions, drugs dispensed allocation of
roads patient’s treatment etc. the software is designed and implemented using
Visual Basic 6.0. This scalable system
can also be extended to manage larger clinics and relevant computerized health
centre.
