Amar K. Das
Publication Details
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A simple heuristic for blindfolded record linkage.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012; (e1): e157-61
To address the challenge of balancing privacy with the need to create cross-site research registry records on individual patients, while matching the data for a given patient as he or she moves between participating sites. To evaluate the strategy of generating anonymous identifiers based on real identifiers in such a way that the chances of a shared patient being accurately identified were maximized, and the chances of incorrectly joining two records belonging to different people were minimized.
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