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Table 10 Instances of ‘potential’ PIs: none of which is a breach as none occurred in isolation

From: Development and evaluation of a de-identification procedure for a case register sourced from mental health electronic records

 

Number of instances

Reasons

Number of ‘potential’ PI instances in the notes (within 500 notes)

89

70.9% due to misspellings; 20.9% due to PIs being un-entered in source

Type of Potential PIs

  

Patient Nickname

20

Un-entered PI

Patient First Name

18

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Old Address Post Code

14

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Patient Date of Birth

13

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Patient Contact Number

2

Un-entered PI

Patient Last Name

10

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Old Address Line 1

5

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Patient Middle Name

4

Un-entered PI

Old Address Line 2

2

Un-entered PI or misspellings

Old Address Line 3

1

Un-entered PI or misspellings