ITC 4150, Database Design and Implementation

Unit IV - Westlake Research Hospital

Sample Answers to Scenario Questions
1. Review all the requirements and business rules.
2. Define your entities and attributes and the relations that exist between them.
3. Create a logical model using crows feet notation in Visio or hand draw it on graph paper,
if you prefer.
4. Add all the entities and their attributes. You dont need to worry about data types for
now.
5. Identify the key fields for each entity and the foreign keys.
6. Analyze the diagram. Identify which role (i.e., domain, linking, lookup, weak) each entity
plays in your database.
7. Review your diagram for the following:
a. Are all the major components of the Westwood Hospitals business model
represented by domain entities?
b. Does each entity contain the appropriate attributes to fully describe it and meet
the business rules you have gathered so far?
c. Does every entity have an appropriate primary key defined?
d. Are all many-to-many relationships resolved into one-to-many relationships by
linking tables?
e. Are the relationships valid (no cross-relationships)? Is the appropriate entity
defined as the one side of a one-to-many relationship? Do the tables have
appropriate foreign keys? Also check for other such issues.
f. Are lookup tables used for attributes that have a set list of values?
The diagram below meets the requirement of all the above instructions for the assignment in
this unit and represents one possible ERD. The drug group could be handled by adding a linking
entity between Drug Group and Patient. The Medical History and the Patient entities could be
joined into one entity in some diagrams. In the Medical History entity, Medicines, Allergies and
Symptoms are multivalued.

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Patient
PK

PatientKey

FK1

PatientLastName
PatientFirstName
PatientPhone
PatientEmail
PatientAddress
PatientCity
PatientState
PatientZip
PatientBirthDate
DoctorKey

PatientMedicalHistory
PK,FK1
PK

PatientKey
AggreementNumber

FK2

medicines
lungDisorder
HighBloodPressure
HeartTrouble
NervousDisorder
DigestiveTrack
KidneyDisorder
Diabetes
Hepititatis
Malaria
BloodDisorder
PhysicalDeformity
LifeThreateningCondition
Contagous
DepressionLevel
DepressionBeginDate
Symptoms
DepressionDescription
FamilyHistory
Notes
DrugGroupKey

Doctor
PK

DoctorKey
DoctorLastName
DoctorFirstName
DoctorPhone

DrugGroup
PK

DrugGroupKey

Appointment
PK

AppointmentKey

FK1
FK2

AppointmentDate
DoctorKey
PatientKey

AppointmentDetails

PK

AppointmentDetailKey

FK1

AppointmentKey
AppointmentDetailBloodPressure
AppointmentDetailWeight
AppointmentDetailPulse
AppointmentDetailDepressionStatus
AppointmentDetailSymptoms
AppointmentDetailsSideEffects
AppointmentDetailDrNotes
AppointmentDetailRecommendation
AppointmentDetailRecommendationNotes

General Guidelines for this Assignment

The diagram above represents only a suggested diagram. You may add entities and attributes
that arise in your analysis. The suggested diagrams assign a key field to each entity. You may
be much more specific about the nature and content of the keys and may develop composite
keys for some entities. As long as the key is guaranteed unique then it will be accepted.
Your naming conventions may also vary from the ones used in the diagram. That is fine as long
as there is some evidence that you have used a naming convention of some sort.
In addition to the guidelines you use to review your diagram, the following rubric should also
guide you on the level of detail and the content expected. Contact your instructor if you have
questions.
Suggested Rubric:
Poor
Entities and relationships
mistakenly and poorly defined.
Diagram confused and
incomplete

OK
Diagram contains all the
domain entities and most or
all attributes. Relationships
mostly correct, proceeding
from primary key to foreign
key, most many-to-many
relationships resolved

Good
Each question listed in the
review criteria (part 7 of the
question) can be answered
with a clear yes