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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Main Authors: Brown, A., Borgs, C., Randall, Sean, Schnell, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Biomed Central Ltd 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53086