From: Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reports
 | Dept. A | Dept. B | Dept. C | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Reports | 600 | 600 | 600 | 1800 |
Reports with any identifier | 415 | 239 | 600 | 1254 |
Unique identifiers | 1079 | 338 | 2082 | 3499 |
Unique identifiers per report | 1.8 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
Unique identifiers removed | 1057 | 320 | 2062 | 3439 |
Unique identifiers remaining, total | 22 | 18 | 20 | 60 |
   Unique HIPAA identifiers remaining | 11 | 1 | 7 | 19 |
% Unique identifiers removed | 98.0% | 94.7% | 99.0% | 98.3% |
Unique over-scrubs | 1126 | 961 | 2584 | 4671 |
Unique over-scrubs per report | 1.9 | 1.6 | 4.3 | 2.6 |
% unique phrases removed that were identifiers | 48.4% | 25.0% | 44.4% | 42.4% |