The reason that identifiable PATIENT details have been withheld in an ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD EXTRACT.

WITHHELD IDENTITY REASON allows suppliers of PATIENT records within ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD EXTRACTS to indicate the reason why the record does not contain PATIENT-identifiable details such as NHS NUMBER, PATIENT NAME, PATIENT USUAL ADDRESS etc.

See Security Issues and Patient Confidentiality for further details.

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This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	WITHHELD IDENTITY REASONS