Pages produced by a web-based metadata application,
which joins the database dictionary to
entity-level information entered by the analyst. See the author's web page
Table Details :: ADMISSION
ADMISSION
Description:
Patient admissions to a clinic. An active admission has a non-null admission date and a null discharge date. The source application ensures that only one admission is active per patient per clinic.
What defines a unique row:
Logical key is PATIENT_ID, CLINIC_ID, and ADMISSION_DATE. Only one row with LASTEST_ROW_IND='Y' is expected for each logical key. The logical key and the INSERT_DATE consitute the database unique key..
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Although I worked at the world's largest provider of dialysis services, this data model is my invention. It is a simplified model that serves as an example for the metadata application that I built. It does not describe the data model of the company.