Protecting the privacy of individual general practice patient electronic records for geospatial epidemiology research

• Main Authors: Soumya Mazumdar (Author), Paul Konings (Author), Michael Hewett (Author), Nasser Bagheri (Author), Ian McRae (Author), Peter Del Fante (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background: General practitioner (GP) practices in Australia are increasingly storing patient information in electronic databases. These practice databases can be accessed by clinical audit software to generate reports that inform clinical or population health decision making and public hea...