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
Studying the health of a million women

Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- 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
Making sure all young people get the best cancer care

Analysisng hospital data to ensure that different treatment approaches do not affect outcomes
- Planning
Understanding the impacts of genes, lifestyle and environment

UK Biobank stores health data on 500,000 volunteers to provide a resource for researchers
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Comparing cancer survival rates worldwide

Using cancer registries to examine cancer survival variation between countries
- Understanding disease
- Planning
- Policy
Screening for ovarian cancer

Recruiting women to participate in a trial to assess the costs and benefits of screening
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Patient safety
- Policy
Disproving the link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Conclusively demonstrating that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism
- Individual care
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety