verb

• Remove identifying particulars or details from (something, especially medical test results), typically for statistical or other purposes.

  ‘investigators are generally permitted to anonymize tissue samples’

  More example sentences

  • ‘We did an observational study of changes in prescribing costs between two financial years using anonymised data from all general practices in Trent.’
  • ‘We used anonymised statistical abstracts of hospital records that were linked to data from death certificates in the former Oxford health region from 1963 to 1998.’
  • ‘We used anonymised data from the UK General Practice Research Database.’
  • ‘However, any experienced journal editor will recount situations where anonymised information has been recognisable to the patient or family involved and caused upset.’
  • ‘The availability of fully anonymised material to others in order to pursue the full scientific and therapeutic potential of the study will be tightly controlled.’