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. 2008 Jul 24;8:32. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-32

Table 5.

Categorization of algorithm false negatives by PHI type on test corpus.

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.