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Improving newborn screening
Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
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Studying the health of a million women
Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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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
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Making sure all young people get the best cancer care
Analysisng hospital data to ensure that different treatment approaches do not affect outcomes
- Planning
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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
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Comparing cancer survival rates worldwide
Using cancer registries to examine cancer survival variation between countries
- Understanding disease
- Planning
- Policy
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Screening for ovarian cancer
Recruiting women to participate in a trial to assess the costs and benefits of screening
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Patient safety
- Policy
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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