PARAT Tool

There are videos illustrating the PARAT tool at the following site: http://www.ehealthinformation.ca/presentations/PADemo/index.asp These videos show some of the recent functionality that has been incorporated into PARAT. No registration is required to view…

This video describes how to use the PARAT tool to de-identify a registry data set. This assumes that the data is cross-sectional (i.e., not a longitudinal data set). The video illustrates the basic functionality of the PARAT tool: selecting a data set, doing…

It is helpful to understand how PARAT deals with missing data. We will consider two kinds of missingness in a record. The first is when there is one or more missing value in the quasi-identifiers. The second is when all of the quasi-identifiers are missing…

The PARAT tool allows the user to define a generalization hierarchy for numbers. A number can be an integer or a real (floating point) number. The way PARAT deals with numbers is the same irrespective of type. The generalization of a number means putting…

One of the key powerful features in PARAT is the ability to produce data sharing agreements automatically based on the results of the risk analysis and de-identification. There are two types of data sharing agreements that can be produced: for an agent (sub-contractor)…

The PARAT tool generates a Word report summarizing the results of the re-identification risk assessment and de-identification that it has performed on a particular data set. This summary is quite often useful for presentation to a research ethics board as…

The PARAT tool allows the user to generate Word data sharing agreements automatically based on the results of the risk assessment (one for a sub-contractor/agent and one for a researcher). The data sharing agreement template that we used is based on Ontario…

PARAT maintains its own workspace. It can only analyze and de-identify data in this workspace. In version 1.12 of PARAT, there are two ways to import data into the PARAT workspace: Any csv file can be imported into PARAT Data in an Access database can be…

The PARAT tool produces a Word report summarizing the missingness in a particular data set. This report is intended for inclusion in the user's reports by just copying and pasting it. The missingness report pertains to the data set that is being analyzed…

The PARAT tool produces a Word report summarizing the results of the risk assessment and de-identification. In this article we will summarize how to interpret this Word report. A screen shot of the report is shown below. The report has four sections. The…