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Use Cases for a Doctor in a Patient Management System

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For a patient management system, a doctor sees patients and prescribes medicine and treatments. Which of the following are appropriate use cases for the Doctor actor? Select all that apply.

Correct Answer

(1) View patient record
(2) Record consultation notes
(3) Prescribe medication
(4) Prescribe treatment
(5) Set up patient consultation

Explanation

Use cases for the Doctor actor should represent discrete tasks the Doctor performs when interacting with the system. These include: viewing patient records, recording consultation notes, prescribing medication and treatments, and setting up consultations. Registering new patients is primarily a receptionist task, and generating management reports is primarily a manager task — these actors would have their own use case diagrams.

Reference

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition


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