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Fig. 1 | BMC Research Notes

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From: Establishing a framework for privacy-preserving record linkage among electronic health record and administrative claims databases within PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network

Fig. 1

This process flow represents the records adjudication steps performed to de-duplicate records with patients with a common “Match_ID”. “MATCH_ID” is generated by the Datavant software and each represents a unique patient. “DMID_PATID” is the internal DM pseudoidentifier (but does not contain patient identifiers). “Age_Group” is the age category assigned to the patient based on patient age. “Sex” includes example Male and Female values from the PCORnet CDM. “Race” includes example values from the PCORnet CDM, where 01 = American Indian or Alaska Native, 03 = Black or African American, and 05 = White

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BMC Research Notes

ISSN: 1756-0500

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