SHRINE User Guide

Contents Basics Requirements Data Steward SHRINE Data Results Menus and Options Main Menu and Options Terms View Query Tool View Query Status View Previous Queries View Accessing SHRINE Registering Logging In to SHRINE Submitting a Query Topic Request Constructing a Query Working with Query Results [ SHRINE Help Main Menu ] | ## Results To protect patient privacy, data are de-identified before incorporation into the Core ontology. In addition, we blur the aggregate patient counts returned as query results so that they are an estimate of the actual number. For information about the technology used to implement this additional obfuscation, refer to the following paper: Murphy SN, Chueh HC. A Security Architecture for Query Tools used to Access Large Biomedical Databases. Proceedings of the 2002, AMIA Annual Symposium. 2002 Nov 9-13, San Antonio, TX p. 552-6. If you run the same query more than one time, you receive slightly different results each time. SHRINE is designed to lock out users who receive the same query results seven times. When you log out of SHRINE, your results no longer are available.