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Table 1 National Chart for Identity Matching

From: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: a case study of a national master patient index in production since five years

 

Traits

Number of characters

Formats

Mandatory traits

Comments

Identifiers

National Identifier (SSN)

13

Chain of character

M

 

MPI federated identifier (FID)

10

Chain of character

M

 

Strict

Traits

First Name

(or Given Name)

100

Chain of character

M

 

Middle Name

70

Chain of character

NM

 

Last name

(or family name)

70

Chain of character

M

Multiple names are separated by a space

Birth date

NA*

DD/MM/YYYY

M

 

Sex

1

M, F and A**

M

 

Extended

Traits

Birth place

50

Chain of character

NM

 

Native country

3

Chain of character

NM

Code ISO 3***

Legal/permanent address (first line)

65

Chain of character

NM

Number (5), Street (60)

Legal/permanent address (second line)

50

Chain of character

NM

Extension

Correspondence address (first line)

65

Chain of character

NM

Number (5), Street (60)

Correspondence address

(second line)

50

Chain of character

NM

Extension

Death indicator

1

Chain of character

NM

 

Date of death

NA

DD/MM/YYYY

NM

 

Complementary Traits

Mobile phone

20

Chain of character

NM

 

E-mail

20

Chain of character

NM

 
  1. The table offers a synthetic view of an identity profile on the eSanté platform. Every physical person is associated with an internal unique identifier, the FID, as well as with the SSN. This scheme presents the complete list of demographics that were specifically collected under the strict traits, extended traits and complementary traits classifications. For each trait, the lengths of the character chain and the accepted format are illustrated. The specific format Day/Month/Year (DD/MM/YYYY) is used to specify dates. As mentioned, all the strict traits are mandatory (M), with the only exception being the middle name, which is a non-mandatory (NM) trait
  2. *NA: Not available
  3. **M: Male, F: Female, A: Other (from French “Autre”)
  4. ***Code ISO 3: International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 [48]