IMHO Hospital is too big. the way I see it, it's admissions that
Admissions.admit(patient) and Admissions.dischard(patient) my 2c only. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well how does a hopsital manage this? > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gavin Beau Baumanis > <b...@palcare.com.au>wrote: > >> * Patient Admissions >> > > A Hospital has a series of patients that it has admitted. So I expect you > would have: > > Hospital.admit(patient) > > >> * Patient Discharges >> > > Ditto: > > Hopsital.dischard(patient) > > I wouldn't be shocked if a Hospital had a series of Wards, which then had > the patients, but you probably know this domain better than I do. > > [image: [Hospital]++1->*[Ward], [Ward]+1->*[Patient]] > http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/[Hospital]++1-<http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/%5BHospital%5D++1->>*[Ward], > [Ward]+1->*[Patient] > > > >> * the Patient's Care teams >> > > A Hospital would have a series of Care Teams, I assume then that the > CareTeam would have a series of patients they belong to. > > [image: > %5BHospital%5D++1-%3E*%5BCareTeam%5D,%20%5BCareTeam%5D+1-%3E*%5BPatient%5D] > > http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/%5BHospital%5D++1-%3E*%5BCareTeam%5D,%20%5BCareTeam%5D+1-%3E*%5BPatient%5D > > (Maybe Care Teams also belong to a Ward?) > > >> * the Patient's Physical locations >> > > Well, I would expect the Patient probably knows what Hospital it is in in, > and the Hospital knows it's own Physical address. > > [image: [Patient]+*->0..1[Hospital], [Hospital]++1->1[Location]] > http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/[Patient]+*-<http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/%5BPatient%5D+*->>0..1[Hospital], > [Hospital]++1->1[Location] > > > Or maybe not, maybe there is a global registry of Patients, i.e. a global > medical record, which ties it all together. (Maybe patients really don't > often know what Hospital they are in, and you need to ask the Medial > History, or maybe both should really know) > > [image: [HistoryRegistery]++1->*[Record], [Record]+1->1[Patient], > [Record]+1-current>0..1[Hospital]] > http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/[HistoryRegistery]++1-<http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;/class/%5BHistoryRegistery%5D++1->>*[Record], > [Record]+1->1[Patient], [Record]+1-current>0..1[Hospital] > > > Again, just modelling the real world objects. You just need to go a few > levels below just a 'Hospital' and get a little deeper. > > There are a variety of ways you could model this, just depends on your > domain really. > > HTH > > Mark > > > -- > E: mark.man...@gmail.com > T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic > W: www.compoundtheory.com > > cf.Objective(ANZ) - Nov 18, 19 - Melbourne Australia > http://www.cfobjective.com.au > > Hands-on ColdFusion ORM Training > www.ColdFusionOrmTraining.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<cfaussie%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
