Designing an Algorithm to Preserve Privacy for Medical Record Linkage With Error-Prone Data [PDF]
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 +3 more
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Linkja: Open Source Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Tool [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjective To introduce Linkja, an open-source, certified, Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) tool with the primary objective of facilitating secure and efficient record linkage across diverse datasets, while preserving individual privacy ...
Kruti Doshi, William Trick, Keiki Hinami
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A practical approach to achieve private medical record linkage in light of public resources. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2013 Integration of patients' records across resources enhances analytics. To address privacy concerns, emerging strategies such as Bloom filter encodings (BFEs), enable integration while obscuring identifiers. However, recent investigations demonstrate BFEs are, in theory, vulnerable to cryptanalysis when encoded identifiers are randomly selected from a ...
Kuzu M +4 more
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Reconstruction of pseudonymized patient-trajectories in Austria's stroke cohort using medical record-linkage of in-patient routine documentation to establish a nation-wide acute stroke cohort of 102,107 pseudonymized patients between 2015 and 2019. [PDF]
Eur Stroke J, 2022 Heidinger M +7 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 +2 more
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Risk and associated risk factors of hospitalization for specific health problems over time in childhood cancer survivors: a medical record linkage study. [PDF]
Cancer Med, 2017 Font-Gonzalez A +11 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 +7 more
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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 +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 +5 more
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