An optimal code for patient identifiers

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Faldum, Andreas ^a   Pommerening, Klaus ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error correction; Error detection; MDS Code; Patient identifiers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION;

OPTIMAL CODES; PATIENT IDENTIFIERS; PSEUDONYMIZATION; TRANSPOSITION;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENTIALITY; MATHEMATICS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 20444417783     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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