The pattern of name tokens in narrative clinical text and a comparison of five systems for redacting them

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-431

  Kayaalp, Mehmet ^a   Browne, Allen C ^a   Callaghan, Fiona M ^a   Dodd, Zeyno A ^a   Divita, Guy ^a   Ozturk, Selcuk ^a   McDonald, Clement J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NARRATIVE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT NAME TOKEN; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIVACY; RADIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; RISK; SOCIAL SECURITY; CHART RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; DE-IDENTIFICATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS; LIBRARY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; PHI; UNITED STATES;

CHART RESEARCH; DE-IDENTIFICATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS; PHI;

CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NAMES; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901857734     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001689     Document Type: Article

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