19. Abbreviations
Abbreviation |
Meaning |
---|---|
C4C |
consent for contact |
CPFT |
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
CRATE |
Clinical Records Anonymisation and Text Extraction (software) [4] |
CRIS |
|
CSV |
comma-separated value (file) |
DD |
data dictionary |
EMR |
electronic medical record (system) |
GATE |
General Architecture for Text Engineering (software) |
IAPT |
UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service |
ID |
identifier |
KCL |
King’s College London |
MPID |
master patient identifier |
MRID |
master research identifier |
NHS |
UK National Health Service |
NLP |
natural language processing |
PID |
patient identifier |
RCEP |
RiO CRIS Extraction Program (by Servelec) |
RDBM |
Research database manager |
RID |
research identifier |
RiO |
An EMR product from Servelec |
SLAM |
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
SQL |
Structured Query Language [1] |
TRID |
transient research identifier |
TSV |
tab-separated value (file) |
UK |
United Kingdom |
20. Glossary
Master patient ID (MPID). A number that uniquely identifies a patient across many databases. In the UK, the NHS number is the usual MPID.
Master research ID (MRID). A research identifier that is unique to a de-identified patient’s record across many linked research databases. A securely hashed version of the MPID.
Patient ID (PID). A number that uniquely identifies a patient within a given database. For example, in a Servelec RiO database, the RiO number is the PID.
Research database administrator (RDBM). A person authorized to run a research database. They may also function as a member of the clinical administrative team, to whom clinicians may delegate work.
Research ID (RID). A research identifier that is unique to a de-identified patient’s record in a research database. A securely hashed version of the PID.
Transient research ID (TRID). An integer that is unique to a de-identified patient within a given database, but which is susceptible to being destroyed and replaced by a different number if the database is de-identified again. It’s faster than the RID, because it’s an integer, and it can be used reliably to link tables within a query, but it can’t be stored and relied on again later, unlike the RID or MRID.
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