[An EDP program for distribution of patients at a surgical department]

A computer programme is described which can undertake automatic distribution of patients referred for elective surgery. The programme ensures coordinated reservation of operation and bed resources. The programme provides copies of admission and operation lists to the departments concerned and, similarly, it writes out distribution lists and summoning letters. The programme provides statistics for use in planning of resources and statistics with waiting lists according to diagnoses and the time of waiting. The programme is protected from illegal employment by unauthorized users as typing of the identity of the user and a personal code word are required. The programme fulfills the requirements to a register made by the supervision of registers concerning registers which contain very sensitive personal information.