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Table 6 Heuristics to identify post codes, with entirely fictitious examples, as they would appear in source records and CRIS output

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

 

Algorithm to identify post codes < postcode>::= source postcode

 

Source record

Source postcode

CRIS output

He lives at EN1 5SR

EN1 5SR

He lives at ZZZZZ

Lives at EN1. No…

None

Lives at EN1. No…

Lives at EN1 S5R

None identified owing to typographic error

Lives at EN1 S5R