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Abstract：
Variation in availability, format, and standardization of patient attributes across health care organizations impacts patient-matching performance. We report on the changing nature of patient-matching features available from 2010-2020 across diverse care settings. We asked 38 health care provider organizations about their current patient attribute data-collection practices. All sites collected name, date of birth (DOB), address, and phone number. Name, DOB, current address, social security number (SSN), sex, and phone number were most commonly used for cross-provider patient matching. Electronic health record queries for a subset of 20 participating sites revealed that DOB, first name, last name, city, and postal codes were highly available (>90%) across health care organizations and time. SSN declined slightly in the last years of the study period. Birth sex, gender identity, language, country full name, country abbreviation, health insurance number, ethnicity, cell phone number, email address, and weight increased over 50% from 2010 to 2020. Understanding the wide variation in available patient attributes across care settings in the United States can guide selection and standardization efforts for improved patient matching in the United States.
摘要：
可用性的变化，格式,和标准化的患者属性跨卫生保健组织影响患者匹配的性能。我们报告了从2010年至2020年在各种护理环境中可用的患者匹配特征的变化性质。我们向38个医疗保健提供者组织询问了他们当前的患者属性数据收集实践。所有收集的网站名称，出生日期（DOB）地址,和电话号码。姓名,DOB,当前地址,社会安全号码(SSN),性别,和电话号码最常用于跨提供者患者匹配.对20个参与站点的子集的电子健康记录查询显示，DOB，名字,姓,城市,和邮政编码在医疗保健组织和时间上高度可用(>90%)。SSN在研究期间的最后几年略有下降。出生性别,性别认同,语言,国家全名,国家缩写，健康保险号码,种族,手机号码,电子邮件地址,从2010年到2020年，体重增加了50%以上。了解美国护理环境中可用患者属性的广泛差异可以指导选择和标准化工作，以改善美国的患者匹配。
