DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTER BASED MATERNITY DATABASE SYSTEM

ABSTRACT
Computer based maternity database system is used to track those information that exist or happening during or after pregnancy but before childbirth. Effective and appropriate Antenatal and post natal care should be offered to all pregnant women. However, different countries offer different sets of routine ANC, which are hardly based on explicit effectiveness criteria, being mainly linked with long-term tradition or other inexplicit criteria. Some interventions still provided to women with normal pregnancies are not effective, and many of them have not been evaluated. These interventions should be eliminated from basic health care packages, and more research is needed on those interventions of unknown effectiveness. This project is written to help hospitals especially Poly Clinic Asata hospital Enugu in the areas they encounter problems in keeping their pre natal information for pregnant woman and the solution given to tackle those problem. This is implemented with visual basic programming language and Microsoft Access for effective pre natal information for pregnant woman information keeping.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page i

Certification ii

Dedication iii

Acknowledgement iv

Abstract v

Table of contents vii

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background of the study 1

1.2 State of the problem 2

1.3 Purpose of the study 3

1.4 Aims and objectives 3

1.5 Scope of study 5

1.6 Limitations of study 5

1.7 Assumptions 6

1.8 Definition of terms 7

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW 8

CHAPTER THREE

3.1 Description and analysis of existing system 15

3.2 Fact finding method used 17

3.3 Hospital structure 19

3.4 Objectives of Existing system 21

3.5 Input, Process and Output Analysis 22

3.6 Information Flow Diagrams 26

3.7 Problems of the Existing System 27

3.8 Justification of the New System 28

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 Design of the New System 30

4.2 Input Specification and design 30

4.3 Output specification and design 32

4.4 File Design 34

4.5 Procedure chart 36

4.6 System flow chart 38

4.7 System requirements 40

CHAPTER FIVE

5.1 Implementation 42

5.2 Program Design 45

5.3 Program Flowchart 48

5.4 Pseudo code 54

5.5 Source Program: Test Run 59

CHAPTER SIX

Documentation 60

CHAPTER SEVEN

7.1 Recommendation 62

7.2 Conclusion 64

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