Anonymise

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The removal of personal information (such as names or addresses of clinical trial participants) so that people using trial data cannot identify the individuals who took part. Truly anonymised data contain no information that could reasonably be used, by anyone, to identify individuals – even by cross-checking  the data against other sources of information. Anonymous data are data that have had personal information removed.

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anonymous
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