“No names” is not de-identification. The real test is whether any reader — a neighbour, a coworker, a journalist — could work out who it is from the combination of details. Click each highlighted detail to keep it, generalise it, or cut it, and watch the candidate pool collapse or recover. The goal is not an empty vignette: keep the teaching value, lose the person.
A real discussion-board post · click any red detail
Each click cycles: keep → generalise → remove → keep. Nothing here was written maliciously. Everything here is a problem.
Submitted to a class discussion board · 42 classmates, one instructor, indexed by the school’s search
kept as writtengeneralisedremoved
The pipe is part of the disclosure
These change nothing about the words and everything about the exposure.
Who could still be this patient?
Starting pool: 52,000 adults in the hospital’s catchment. Every detail you keep divides it.
1people in the catchment area still match every detail you kept
Teaching value kept
0 / 7
Safe-harbour identifiers left in
0
What survives — the version you would actually post