Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Targeting back pain treatment to those most in need

Using patient data to stratify risk of long term disability.
- Individual care
Treating mental health and substance abuse

Using GP data to estimate the number of people with mental health and substance abuse problems
- Planning
Understanding hip fractures

Collecting audit data to monitor and improve the treatment for hip fracture
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Improving treatment of teenage anxiety and depression

Analysing trends in prescriptions to teenagers experiencing mental health problems
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Investigating self-harm in young people

Identifying under reporting of self-harm
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
A better understanding of mental illness

Linking data to improve treatment and prevention of mental illness
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Monitoring joint replacement surgery

Analysing registry data to improve performance and safety
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Using social media to better understand rheumatoid arthritis

Understanding the real world experience of patients through online support group data
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Does pain get worse in bad weather?

Using smartphone data to analyse the potential relationship between weather and pain
- Understanding disease
Preventing suicides

Using hospital data to gain new insights into suicide prevention
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention