MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR DECISION MAKING - COMPUTERIZATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS OF ABUTH, ZARIA

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dc.contributor.authorOKORO, E.O
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-10T12:01:11Z
dc.date.available2014-02-10T12:01:11Z
dc.date.issued1983
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (COMPUTER SCIENCE) DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS FACULTY OF SCIENCE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARlAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Medical Records System is one of several subsystems that make up a Medical Information System. It plays an important role in the development of Medical Sciences, and in planning individual patient care. So far these records are usually maintained manually. Naturally, it has severe limitations. In this dissertation a11 such limitations has been identified and a computerized medical Records System have been proposed. Obviously, it is relatively more reliable, economical and faster. In addition, it is capable of offering much more than the current system. The proposed system has been tested on live data collected from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria. The programs and their outputs have been included towards the end of this dissertation with the processing details fully explained in the text. The system comprises of essentially three subsystems. They are: Data Check and Store (DCS) subsystem, which is designed to store the coded information on treated in-patients in two different files after record validation one of the files is an active on stored on magnetic disc for frequent processing. The other having a greater records length is infrequently used and is stored on a magnetic tape kept away to be activated and deactivated according to needs. A second subsystem, Report Genera ting (RG), is responsible for producing both the reports that are manually possible, and certain others that are not being produced by the manual system due to size and complexity even though they are qually desirable. To cope with the growing number of recuests for patients' data necessary for research, an interactive Health Inquiry (H..I) subsystem is introduced to handle inquiries on the frequency of any of the 999 major disease groups for a given period and their associated mortality counts. - V - As far as the information goes this attempt is perhaps the first of its kind in the country. The Medical Records Department of ABUTH, Zaria is now all set to implement the proposed system and the Medical Reoords Department of ABUTH, Kaduna will soon follow suit.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/958
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMANAGEMENTen_US
dc.subjectINFORMATIONen_US
dc.subjectSYSTEMen_US
dc.subjectDECISIONen_US
dc.subjectMAKINGen_US
dc.subjectCOMPUTERIZATIONen_US
dc.subjectMEDICALen_US
dc.subjectRECORDSen_US
dc.subjectABUTH,en_US
dc.subjectZARIAen_US
dc.titleMANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR DECISION MAKING - COMPUTERIZATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS OF ABUTH, ZARIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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