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KMID : 0191120150300010007
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Journal of Korean Medical Science
2015 Volume.30 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.15
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A De-identification Method for Bilingual Clinical Texts of Various Note Types
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Shin Soo-Yong
Park Yu-Rang
Shin Yong-Don
Choi Hyo-Joung
Park Ji-Hyun
Lyu Yong-Man
Lee Moo-Song
Choi Chang-Min
Kim Woo-Sung
Lee Jae-Ho
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Abstract
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De-identification of personal health information is essential in order not to require written patient informed consent. Previous de-identification methods were proposed using natural language processing technology in order to remove the identifiers in clinical narrative text, although these methods only focused on narrative text written in English. In this study, we propose a regular expression-based de-identification method used to address bilingual clinical records written in Korean and English. To develop and validate regular expression rules, we obtained training and validation datasets composed of 6,039 clinical notes of 20 types and 5,000 notes of 33 types, respectively. Fifteen regular expression rules were constructed using the development dataset and those rules achieved 99.87% precision and 96.25% recall for the validation dataset. Our de-identification method successfully removed the identifiers in diverse types of bilingual clinical narrative texts. This method will thus assist physicians to more easily perform retrospective research.
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KEYWORD
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De-identification, Anonymization, Clinical Text, Bilingual Text, Patient Privacy, Medical Informatics, Text Mining
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