Table 5.
PHI Type | # False negatives in 296,400 words/1,836 nursing notes | # False negatives per 100,000 words | Recall |
Full name | 4 † | 1 | |
Last name | 14 † | 5 | |
First name | 31 † | 11 | |
Location (not street address) | 7 | 2 | |
Full date | 2 | 1 | Unknown |
Partial date | 9 | 3 | |
Year | 8 | 3 | |
Age over 89 | 3 | 1 | |
Overall | 78 | 27 | 0.94 (estimated) |
† None of these names were actually patient names, and therefore were non-critical PHI.