15.1.11. crate_anon.anonymise.eponyms


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Eponyms from 2018-03-27 snapshot of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymously_named_diseases

Remember the following: - Patient names should be removed using their identifiable information.

This is just an additional experimental safety measure.
  • The eponyms are removed from the name lists, before the name lists are used to scrub text – so we don’t scrub “Parkinson’s disease”, as an obvious example.
  • Consequently, we can be quite liberal here. Including “Turner”, for example (a common UK name but also in Turner’s syndrome) won’t prevent a Mr Turner from being anonymised.
  • However, the point is to scrub out some inadvertent names, so maybe not too liberal!
class crate_anon.anonymise.eponyms.EponymInfo[source]

Reserved for future use, the intention being maybe some classification by how rare or common (a) the eponymous disease is, and (b) the name itself is.