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Table 3 Summary of identifiers that were not removed.

From: Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reports

Identifier

Identifier Type

In-house Cases

Consult Cases

Total

Accession number

HIPAA

0

10

10

Patient Name

    

   Misspelled

HIPAA

5

2

7

   Correctly spelled

HIPAA

0

0

0

Medical record number

HIPAA

1

0

1

Date

HIPAA

1

0

1

   HIPAA subtotal

 

7

12

19

Institution address, partial

Non-HIPAA

0

17

17

Age <90

Non-HIPAA

16

0

16

Health care organization name

Non-HIPAA

0

6

6

Doctor name

Non-HIPAA

1

1

2

   Non-HIPAA subtotal

 

17

24

41

Grand total

HIPAA and Non-HIPAA

24

36

60

  1. There were a total of 3499 unique identifiers in the test reports, of which 1809 were from consult reports and 1690 from in-house reports.