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Definition of anonymize in English: anonymize(British anonymise) verbəˈnɒnɪmʌɪzəˈnɑnəˌmaɪz [with object]usually as adjective anonymizedRemove identifying particulars or details from (something, especially medical test results) for statistical or other purposes. anonymized testing of routine blood samples Example sentencesExamples - However, any experienced journal editor will recount situations where anonymised information has been recognisable to the patient or family involved and caused upset.
- We used anonymised statistical abstracts of hospital records that were linked to data from death certificates in the former Oxford health region from 1963 to 1998.
- We did an observational study of changes in prescribing costs between two financial years using anonymised data from all general practices in Trent.
- The availability of fully anonymised material to others in order to pursue the full scientific and therapeutic potential of the study will be tightly controlled.
- We used anonymised data from the UK General Practice Research Database.
Derivatives noun There are also interviews that deal with material that is in the public sphere, like oral history recordings, where anonymity is not expected and where it's normal to obtain informed consent for publication without anonymization. Example sentencesExamples - Because of the personal nature of information in social networks, some form of anonymization may be applied to the data.
- The power can only be used where gaining consent or anonymization are not reasonably practicable options.
- The way serious people protect their web-searching privacy is through anonymization.
- Privacy ultimately is about an individual's ability to control personally identifying information, and anonymization alone can never facilitate this.
Origin 1970s: from anonymous + -ize. Definition of anonymize in US English: anonymize(British anonymise) verbəˈnänəˌmīzəˈnɑnəˌmaɪz [with object]1Make anonymous. manuscripts will be anonymized by the editorial assistant Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, any form of discrimination, whether positive or negative, is highly undesirable and offers another reason why anonymising applications is detrimental to the fairness of the selection process.
- A few years ago, for various reasons I will not go into, we actually held an internal trawl for promotion, and to make it as fair as possible, we anonymised all the applications.
- In addition to the usual procedures for anonymizing data, there are some additional concerns to address.
- We did not anonymise the reports before assessment.
- The manuscripts under discussion are confidential, however, so we have anonymised them to protect authors' privacy.
- At this point the first questionnaire was anonymised and linked to the second questionnaire by a unique number.
- The data that we used in all of our analysis was anonymized, with user names replaced by unique ID's and only year, graduate or undergraduate status, and department retained from the above information.
- If encryption were easy to use, then people would have the opportunity to anonymize their transactions.
- In future, it may be more useful to emphasise that the task is noncompetitive and pay even more attention to the fact that data are anonymised.
- Certainly all the time, when I am representing collective opinions to staff, I regularly get asked to do that by anonymising their comments; they are not comfortable with being identified with a comment that is critical.
- I have gone out of my way to anonymise not only the lady who made the complaint but also the relevant officers in the defendant's department who dealt with the matter.
- I seem to recall that police have already noted the power that pre-paid cellphones give criminals by anonymising their conversations and making it far harder to work out what they're saying and to who.
- I would be happy to anonymize any reports if you would prefer not to have your name mentioned.
- Just before you begin, why are the parties anonymised in these matters?
- As a result of an appeal from the person who wrote the first comment discussed below, I've anonymized the names of the commenters involved.
- The guidance envisages circumstances where it is not practicable to obtain express consent or to arrange for a member of the health team to anonymize the records, for example to enable another person to anonymize the information.
- On the other hand, generally speaking, it has to do with anonymizing a client's access to a server.
- Merely anonymising her information would be ethically problematic, as could drafting a fictional case ‘inspired’ by the clinical encounter.
- Care must nevertheless be taken to anonymise the material and exceptionally exclude confidential information about third parties or information provided ‘in confidence and not for wider dissemination.’
- They were also told that their ‘stories’ would be anonymised in order to protect their privacy.
- 1.1usually as adjective anonymizedMedicine Remove identifying particulars from (test results) for statistical or other purposes.
anonymized testing of routine blood samples Example sentencesExamples - We used anonymised statistical abstracts of hospital records that were linked to data from death certificates in the former Oxford health region from 1963 to 1998.
- The availability of fully anonymised material to others in order to pursue the full scientific and therapeutic potential of the study will be tightly controlled.
- We did an observational study of changes in prescribing costs between two financial years using anonymised data from all general practices in Trent.
- We used anonymised data from the UK General Practice Research Database.
- However, any experienced journal editor will recount situations where anonymised information has been recognisable to the patient or family involved and caused upset.
Origin 1970s: from anonymous + -ize. |