Development and evaluation of a de-identification procedure for a case register sourced from mental health electronic records

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fernandes, Andrea C ^a   Cloete, Danielle ^c   Broadbent, Matthew T M ^a   Hayes, Richard D ^a   Chang, Chin Kuo ^a   Jackson, Richard G ^c   Roberts, Angus ^b   Tsang, Jason ^a   Soncul, Murat ^c   Liebscher, Jennifer ^a   Stewart, Robert ^a   Callard, Felicity ^a,d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anonymisation; De identification; Electronic health records; Medical health records security; Medical information database security; Psychiatric case register

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LONDON; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84880028418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-71     Document Type: Article

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