Hospitals

A hospital is a healthcare facility that provides inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment, and palliative care services. It may serve a community or regional population or serve as a teaching and referral center. A hospital may seek approval for its cancer program from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, whose program standards require operation of a hospital cancer registry.

The hospital business use case diagram shows the business process of a hospital cancer registry and its interaction with internal actors (those who perform the process) and external actors (recipients of the process).

The hospital operations use case diagram shows hospital cancer registry operations, including general first-level functions and more detailed second-level functions.

The hospital domain diagram shows the interactions between the entities involved in registry functions. It shows the formation of a cancer abstract from the time individual event reports are generated at different data sources to the time the cancer abstract is stored in the hospital cancer registry and made available to institutions and national programs for research.

Hospital registry functions include—

Hospital data sources include—

*Numbers rank the data sources on the quality of useful data available on a scale of 1 being the most useful and 10 being the least useful.
**Pathology laboratories send data to both hospital registries and central cancer registries.