Large scale database scrubbing using object oriented software components
Now that case managers, quality improvement teams, and researchers use medical databases extensively, the ability to share and disseminate such databases while maintaining patient confidentiality is paramount. A process called scrubbing addresses this problem by removing personally identifying infor...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (1998) vom: 13., Seite 508-12 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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1998
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
| Zusammenfassung: | Now that case managers, quality improvement teams, and researchers use medical databases extensively, the ability to share and disseminate such databases while maintaining patient confidentiality is paramount. A process called scrubbing addresses this problem by removing personally identifying information while keeping the integrity of the medical information intact. Scrubbing entire databases, containing multiple tables, requires that the implicit relationships between data elements in different tables of the database be maintained. To address this issue we developed DBScrub, a Java program that interfaces with any JDBC compliant database and scrubs the database while maintaining the implicit relationships within it. DBScrub uses a small number of highly configurable object-oriented software components to carry out the scrubbing. We describe the structure of these software components and how they maintain the implicit relationships within the database |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 16.03.1999 Date Revised 13.11.2018 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1531-605X |