Small numbers, disclosure risk, security, and reliability issues in web-based data query systems

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 176-183

  Rudolph, Barbara A ^a,b,c,e   Shah, Gulzar H ^a,d,e   Love, Denise ^a  

^a National Association of Health Data Organizations   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Leaps and Measures for the Leapfrog Group   (United States)

^d LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Information systems; Internet; Public health; Public health informatics

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEALTH STATISTICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; COMPUTER SECURITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SECURITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 33645729539     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124784-200603000-00010     Document Type: Review

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