Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets

Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets

Abstract Background Integrating medical data using databases from different sources by record linkage is a powerful technique increasingly used in medical research. Under many jurisdictions, unique personal identifiers needed for linking the records are unavailable. Since sensitive attributes, such...

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Main Authors: Adrian P. Brown, Christian Borgs, Sean M. Randall, Rainer Schnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Medical record linkage
Blocking
Indexing
Private record linkage
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-017-0478-5

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