President Clinton in his speech talked about the inappropriateness of "prying into private lives" (transcript, Aug. 18), yet that is what the proposed patient identification number would do.
It provides patient identification number, gender, age, date of visit, length of hospitalization, prescribed medication, and diagnoses using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) [18].
ID n°: patient identification number.
These 2 points rely on a unique patient identification number.
As a result, no patient identification number was assigned.
The files are linkable based on an encrypted patient identification number.
The questionnaire and registration forms used the same unique patient identification number.
A laboratory report lists all critical values according to date and patient identification number.
After giving written informed consent, patients were assigned a unique patient identification number.
The final dataset contained a linkage derived patient identification number, but no personally identifiable information.
