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Designing an Algorithm to Preserve Privacy for Medical Record Linkage With Error-Prone Data

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2014
BackgroundLinking medical records across different medical service providers is important to the enhancement of health care quality and public health surveillance. In records linkage, protecting the patients’ privacy is a primary requirement.
Pal, Doyel, Chen, Tingting, Zhong, Sheng, Khethavath, Praveen   +3 more
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Medical record linkage in health information systems by approximate string matching and clustering [PDF]

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2005
Background Multiplication of data sources within heterogeneous healthcare information systems always results in redundant information, split among multiple databases. Our objective is to detect exact and approximate duplicates within identity records, in
Buemi Antoine, Paumier Jean-Philippe, Sauleau Erik A   +2 more
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A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Data Linkage Publications on Diabetes in Australia

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
AimsOur study aimed to identify the common themes, knowledge gaps and to evaluate the quality of data linkage research on diabetes in Australia.MethodsThis systematic review was developed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic ...
Ngan T. T. Dinh, Ngan T. T. Dinh, Ingrid A. Cox, Barbara de Graaff, Julie A. Campbell, Brian Stokes, Andrew J. Palmer, Andrew J. Palmer   +7 more
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Risk of early recurrence and mortality in high-risk myocardial infarction patients: A population-based linked data study

International Journal of Cardiology. Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, 2023
Background: Survival during the early period following myocardial infarction (MI) has significantly improved although there are limited data on cardiovascular recurrence during this period.
Lee Nedkoff, Tom Briffa, Kevin Murray, James Gaw, Andrea Yates, Frank M. Sanfilippo, Stephen J. Nicholls   +6 more
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The changing face of Australian data reforms: Impact on pharmacoepidemiology research

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2021
Objective A wealth of data is generated through Australia’s universal health care arrangements. However, use of these data has been hampered by different federal and state legislation, privacy concerns and challenges in linking data across jurisdictions.
Juliana de Oliveira Costa, Claudia Bruno, Andrea L Schaffer, Smriti Raichand, Emily A Karanges , Sallie-Anne Pearson   +5 more
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Record linkage under suboptimal conditions for data-intensive evaluation of primary care in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
Background Linking Brazilian databases demands the development of algorithms and processes to deal with various challenges including the large size of the databases, the low number and poor quality of personal identifiers available to be compared ...
Claudia Medina Coeli, Valeria Saraceni, Paulo Mota Medeiros, Helena Pereira da Silva Santos, Luis Carlos Torres Guillen, Luís Guilherme Santos Buteri Alves, Thomas Hone, Christopher Millett, Anete Trajman, Betina Durovni   +9 more
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Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017
Background Integrating medical data using databases from different sources by record linkage is a powerful technique increasingly used in medical research.
Adrian P. Brown, Christian Borgs, Sean M. Randall, Rainer Schnell   +3 more
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Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage of Deidentified Records Within a Public Health Surveillance System: Evaluation Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
BackgroundThe Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) was established to monitor national testing and test outcomes for blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in key populations ...
Nguyen, Long, Stoové, Mark, Boyle, Douglas, Callander, Denton, McManus, Hamish, Asselin, Jason, Guy, Rebecca, Donovan, Basil, Hellard, Margaret, El-Hayek, Carol   +9 more
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Establishing a framework for privacy-preserving record linkage among electronic health record and administrative claims databases within PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network

BMC Research Notes, 2022
Objective The aim of this study was to determine whether a secure, privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) methodology can be implemented in a scalable manner for use in a large national clinical research network.
Daniel Kiernan, Thomas Carton, Sengwee Toh, Jasmin Phua, Maryan Zirkle, Darcy Louzao, Kevin Haynes, Mark Weiner, Francisco Angulo, Charles Bailey, Jiang Bian, Daniel Fort, Shaun Grannis, Ashok Kumar Krishnamurthy, Vinit Nair, Pedro Rivera, Jonathan Silverstein, Keith Marsolo   +17 more
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The Data-Adaptive Fellegi-Sunter Model for Probabilistic Record Linkage: Algorithm Development and Validation for Incorporating Missing Data and Field Selection

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundQuality patient care requires comprehensive health care data from a broad set of sources. However, missing data in medical records and matching field selection are 2 real-world challenges in patient-record linkage.
Xiaochun Li, Huiping Xu, Shaun Grannis
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