Table 1.
Summary of four use cases, Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), newborn screening (NBS), Social Security Administration (SSA), and Marion County Health Department (MCHD), with information on the number of records in each use case, blocking schemes, and the numbers of record pairs in blocking schemes.
| Block | Pairs | |
| INPC (47,334,986 records) | ||
|
|
SSNa | 53,054,690 |
|
|
FN-TELb | 41,729,402 |
|
|
DB-MB-YB-ZIPc | 133,553,036 |
|
|
FN-LN-YBd | 193,865,283 |
|
|
DB-LN-MB-YBe | 191,181,498 |
| NBS (765,813 records) | ||
|
|
MRNf | 4,147,098 |
|
|
TELg | 2,644,454 |
|
|
MB-DB-ZIP | 8,083,396 |
|
|
LN-FNh | 3,005,368 |
|
|
NK_LN-NK_FNi | 1,217,736 |
| SSA (89,556,520 records) | ||
|
|
SSN | 805,331 |
|
|
FN-LN-ZIP | 18,103 |
|
|
FN-LN-MI-YB | 1,395,395 |
|
|
FN-LN-MI-DB-MB | 547,376 |
|
|
FN-LN-DB-MB-YB | 722,167 |
| MCHD (471,298 records) | ||
|
|
SSN | 869,454 |
|
|
TEL | 28,238 |
|
|
DB-MB-YB-zip | 5,083,429 |
|
|
FN-LN-YB | 3,378,017 |
|
|
DB-LN-MB-YB | 3,701,460 |
aSSN: Social Security number.
bFN-TEL: first name and telephone number.
cDB-MB-YB-ZIP: day, month, and year of birth and zip code.
dFN-LN-YB: first name, last name, and year of birth.
eDB-LN-MB-YB: day, month, and year of birth and last name.
fMRN: medical record number.
gTEL: telephone no.
hLN-FN: last name, first name.
iNK_LN, NK_FN: next of kin last name and first name.