Preserving temporal relations in clinical data while maintaining privacy

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Editor's Choice: Preserving temporal relations in clinical data while maintaining privacy

Objective Maintaining patient privacy is a challenge in large-scale observational research. To assist in reducing the risk of identifying study subjects through publicly available data, we introduce a method for obscuring date information for clinical ...

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The role of electronic healthcare record databases in paediatric drug safety surveillance: a retrospective cohort study

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The role of electronic healthcare record databases in paediatric drug safety surveillance: a retrospective cohort study

Electronic healthcare record (EHR)-based surveillance systems are increasingly being developed to support early detection of safety signals. It is unknown what the power of such a system is for surveillance among children and adolescents. In this paper ...

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Birth month affects lifetime disease risk: a phenome-wide method

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Editor's Choice: Birth month affects lifetime disease risk: a phenome-wide method

Objective An individual’s birth month has a significant impact on the diseases they develop during their lifetime. Previous studies reveal relationships between birth month and several diseases including atherothrombosis, asthma, attention deficit ...