Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets.
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 as names...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Biomed Central Ltd
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53086 |