1.3. Reference publications

The primary reference publication is:

• Cardinal RN (2017). Clinical records anonymisation and text extraction (CRATE): an open-source software system. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 17: 50. PubMed ID 28441940; DOI 10.1186/s12911-017-0437-1; PDF.

  Please cite this one if you use CRATE, or databases built with it. Thank you!

Developments to CRATE have also been reported in:

• Cardinal RN, Moore A, Burchell M, Lewis JR (2023). De-identified Bayesian personal identity matching for privacy-preserving record linkage despite errors: development and validation. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 23: 85. PubMed ID 37147600; DOI 10.1186/s12911-023-02176-6; PDF.

  This one is the appropriate citation for CRATE’s de-identified linkage system.