De-identified Bayesian personal identity matching for privacy-preserving record linkage despite errors: development and validation
Publication: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Cardinal RN, Moore A, Burchell M, Lewis JR
5 May 2023
Summary
Researchers developed a new way to link information between two organisations (e.g. an NHS organisation and a government education department) for research, without direct identifiers (such as names or dates of birth) being used during the linkage process itself.