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There is a wide range of ways that patient data can be used to provide better care and improve health. Explore the case studies to learn more. Please let us know if you have good examples to share.

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  • Individual care (4)
  • Patient safety (3)
  • Planning (2)
  • Policy (1)
  • Treatment and prevention (7)
  • Understanding disease (1)
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  • (-) Asthma (7)
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  • Analysing local variation in stroke prevention

    Comparing local performance on managing atrial fibrillation

    • Treatment and prevention
    • Planning
  • Tackling preventable asthma deaths

    Targeting interventions at children at high risk of asthma attacks

    • Treatment and prevention
  • Mobile health approaches for asthma

    Evaluating the effectiveness of a new 'smart inhaler'

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
  • Assessing a new treatment for severe asthma

    Evaluating the safety of a new treatment through real world clinical data

    • Treatment and prevention
    • Planning
    • Patient safety
  • The impact of air pollution on health

    Using pan-European data to understand how air pollution affects health

    • Understanding disease
    • Treatment and prevention
    • Policy
  • A tragic case of data mismanagement

    Not linking data contributed to a lack of understanding of a patient's deteriorating health

    • Individual care
    • Patient safety
  • Is there a link between asthma drugs and heart attacks?

    Using GP data to assess the safety of a commonly prescribed asthma drug

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
    • Patient safety
  • Improving treatments for COPD

    Real-time monitoring of a new treatment for COPD in Salford

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
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