The phrase "a unique encrypted" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to follow "encrypted." You can use it when describing something that is both unique and encrypted, but it needs to be part of a complete thought or sentence.
Example: "We have developed a unique encrypted method for securing user data."
Alternatives: "a distinct encryption" or "a one-of-a-kind encrypted".
This list was linked to multiple administrative databases via a unique, encrypted, provincial health insurance number.
Using a secure ICES algorithm, each health card number is assigned a unique encrypted ICES number (IKN).
Patients' data were de-identified, with a unique, encrypted identifier available to link claims and EMR information.
Once the data were linked, these identifying variables were replaced with a unique encrypted record linkage key.
Individuals in the medical, pharmacy, and eligibility files could be linked and longitudinally followed using a unique encrypted identification number.
In each database, residents of Ontario are represented by a unique encrypted identifier that enables complete record linkage at the level of the individual across databases and time.
Using a common unique encrypted identifier, a data linkage was performed between patients enrolled in the DELPHI database prior to April 1, 2006 and the ODD and Ontario's health registry, the Registered Persons Database, both held at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (N = 19,443).
To ensure confidentiality, patient records in the NSSPP database have unique encrypted patient identifiers according to Canadian Institute for Health Information CIHII) encryption standards [ 38].
People with an AMI admission were deterministically linked using unique encrypted health card numbers to the Ontario Registered Persons Database, which provided data on mortality over time, regardless of where death occurred, as well as periods of health care eligibility and health care use (physician visit, drug prescription, hospital or emergency room visit).
In addition, we merged South Carolina's ORS all-payer inpatient data with the ED observations using unique encrypted patient identification numbers (IDs) to identify those ED visits with a subsequent inpatient admission within 30 days after the index ED visit.
Data for these individuals were linked to their employers' short-term disability records via unique encrypted personal identification numbers provided by employers.
