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Hardening Legacy Patient Identifiers Against Transcription Errors: A Table-Free Verhoeff Formulation
2026-04-16
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> . Patient identification in population-scale health registries relies on decimal identifiers whose integrity checks were designed for isolated systems. In a densely allocated namespace, an undetected transcription error may silently retrieve another person’s clinical record. Commutative weighted-sum check-digit schemes are structurally blind to certain adjacen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ae2bf6e2-f40c-57e6-a5cc-548fba421c2c
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9370549/v1
