A simple heuristic for blindfolded record linkage.
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 [...]
Author(s): Weber, Susan C, Lowe, Henry, Das, Amar, Ferris, Todd
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000329