Colander: program to de-identify dates
By setting all occurrences of a specific event (first hospitalization start for example), to a common date and time.
Eg. if you have a file with two patients, patients A and B which looks like the following
Patient | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
A | 2011/1011/12 | In |
B | 2011/1011/11 | In |
A | 2011/14/12 | Out |
B | 2011/10/12 | Out |
Patient |
|---|
...
...
Patient | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
A | 2000/01/01 | In |
B | 2000/01/01 | In |
A | 2000/04/01 | Out |
B | 2000/01/02 | Out |
Author:
endrebak
Config file format (input_file_name|output_file_name (!= input file name)|columns containing dates|column containing pid)
New Format? #input_file_name|(!=)output_file_name|all columns containing dates|one column containing the unique ID
CSV/sykehus_avd.csv|CSV/sykehus_avd_anon.csv|6,5,7|-13
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Files:
Notes:
not tested on real data