Encoding Diagnostic Codes for Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage
Introduction Diagnostic codes, such as the ICD-10, may be considered as sensitive information. If such codes have to be encoded using current methods for data linkage, all hierarchical information given by the code positions will be lost. We present a technique (HPBFs) for preserving the hierarchica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2020-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/1461 |