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Table 11 Instance of a potential breach: 3 or more PIs appearing for a single patient

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

Patient

Type of PI

Year of document

Reason for appearance on CRIS

Confidence in re-identification

1

Patient third line of address

2006

Misspellings

Low: Outdated information, and cannot be verified, and incorrect spellings [22]

Patient post code

   

Patient last name

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