Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Improving newborn screening

Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
Extending the UK flu vaccination programme

Using surveillance data to justify vaccinating children against flu
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Follow up for people discharged from hospital after a heart attack

Linking three datasets to monitor drug adherence outside of hospital
- Understanding disease
Assessing the benefits of cholesterol lowering drugs

Recruiting thousands of people to a large scale statins clinical trial
- Treatment and prevention
Analysing local variation in stroke prevention

Comparing local performance on managing atrial fibrillation
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Demonstrating the safety of a treatment for heart failure

Analysing a potential link between angiotensin receptor blockers and cancer
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Improving the treatment of bacterial meningitis in young babies

Monitoring infection rates in babies under three months old
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Updating the understanding of the risks of diabetes

Using GP data to learn more about diabetes
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Early diagnosis of dementia

Researching the earliest changes in the development of dementia
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
Studying the health of doctors to prove the dangers of smoking

Collecting data from thousands of British doctors to examine the health effects of smoking
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention