Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage of Deidentified Records Within a Public Health Surveillance System: Evaluation Study

Long Nguyen   ¹ , MCom ;   Mark Stoové   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Douglas Boyle   ³ , PhD ;   Denton Callander   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Hamish McManus   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jason Asselin   ¹ , MEpi ;   Rebecca Guy   ⁴ , PhD ;   Basil Donovan   ^{4, 6} , MD ;   Margaret Hellard   ^{1, 2, 7, 8} , MD, PhD ;   Carol El-Hayek   ^{1, 2} , MEpi

¹ Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

² School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

³ Department of General Practice, HaBIC Research Technology Unit, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney, Australia

⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

⁸ Doherty Institute and School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia