Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data
© 2017 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press. Record linkage (RL) is the process of identifying pairs of records that correspond to the same entity, for example the same patient. The basic approach assigns to each pair of records a similarity weight, and then determines a...
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| author | Stausberg, J. Waldenburger, A. Borgs, Christian Schnell, Rainer |
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| description | © 2017 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press. Record linkage (RL) is the process of identifying pairs of records that correspond to the same entity, for example the same patient. The basic approach assigns to each pair of records a similarity weight, and then determines a certain threshold, above which the two records are considered to be a match. Three different RL methods were applied under privacy-preserving conditions on hospital admission data: deterministic RL (DRL), probabilistic RL (PRL), and Bloom filters. The patient characteristics like names were one-way encrypted (DRL, PRL) or transformed to a cryptographic longterm key (Bloom filters). Based on one year of hospital admissions, the data set was split randomly in 30 thousand new and 1,5 million known patients. With the combination of the three RL-methods, a positive predictive value of 83 % (95 %-confidence interval 65 %-94 %) was attained. Thus, the application of the presented combination of RL-methods seem to be suited for other applications of population-based research. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-711192018-12-13T09:32:38Z Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data Stausberg, J. Waldenburger, A. Borgs, Christian Schnell, Rainer © 2017 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press. Record linkage (RL) is the process of identifying pairs of records that correspond to the same entity, for example the same patient. The basic approach assigns to each pair of records a similarity weight, and then determines a certain threshold, above which the two records are considered to be a match. Three different RL methods were applied under privacy-preserving conditions on hospital admission data: deterministic RL (DRL), probabilistic RL (PRL), and Bloom filters. The patient characteristics like names were one-way encrypted (DRL, PRL) or transformed to a cryptographic longterm key (Bloom filters). Based on one year of hospital admissions, the data set was split randomly in 30 thousand new and 1,5 million known patients. With the combination of the three RL-methods, a positive predictive value of 83 % (95 %-confidence interval 65 %-94 %) was attained. Thus, the application of the presented combination of RL-methods seem to be suited for other applications of population-based research. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71119 10.3233/978-1-61499-753-5-161 IOS Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Stausberg, J. Waldenburger, A. Borgs, Christian Schnell, Rainer Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title | Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title_full | Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title_fullStr | Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title_short | Combining Different Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Methods for Hospital Admission Data |
| title_sort | combining different privacy-preserving record linkage methods for hospital admission data |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71119 |