Matching Records in a National Medical Patient Index

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 83-88

  Bell, Glenn B ^a   Sethi, Anil ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b Sequoia Software Corp   (United States)

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EID: 0002696312     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/383694.383711     Document Type: Article

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