18. Abbreviations and glossary

Abbreviation Meaning
CPFT Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
CRATE Clinical Records Anonymisation and Text Extraction (software) [4]
CRIS Clinical Records Interactive Search [2] [3]
CSV comma-separated value (file)
DD data dictionary
EMR electronic medical record (system)
GATE General Architecture for Text Engineering (software)
IAPT UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service
ID identifier
KCL King’s College London
MPID master patient identifier
MRID master research identifier
NHS UK National Health Service
NLP natural language processing
PID patient identifier
RCEP RiO CRIS Extraction Program (by Servelec)
RID research identifier
RiO An EMR product from Servelec
SLAM South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
SQL Structured Query Language [1]
TRID transient research identifier
TSV tab-separated value (file)
UK United Kingdom

Footnotes

[1]Codd EF (1970). “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” Commun. ACM 13: 377–387. https://doi.org/10.1145/362384.362685.
[2]Stewart R et al. (2009). “The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLAM BRC) case register: development and descriptive data.” BMC Psychiatry 9: 51. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19674459; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-9-51.
[3]Fernandes A et al. (2013). “Development and evaluation of a de-identification procedure for a case register sourced from mental health electronic records.” BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 13: 71. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23842533; https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-71.
[4]Cardinal RN (2017). “Clinical records anonymisation and text extraction (CRATE): an open-source software system.” BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 17: 50. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441940; https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0437-1.