Preferred Label : Anonymized Patient Identifier;
NCIt definition : A surrogate identifier assigned to a specific patient subsequent to irreversible removal
of all links between the de-identified and original datasets, that is used to ensure
the security of protected health information (PHI).;
Alternative definition : OORO: A surrogate identifier of the patient used to protect PHI. The anonymized Patient
ID is used as part of individual studies or data transmissions. The transmitter maintains
an encrypted hash table mapping anonymized Patient ID to MRN to allow quality assurance
and correction of transmitted values.;
NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL1912622;
Origin ID : C192598;
UMLS CUI : C5785316;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
