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
Demonstrating the safety of oral contraceptives

Using long term data to understand the effects of widely used drugs
- Patient safety
Treating mental health and substance abuse

Using GP data to estimate the number of people with mental health and substance abuse problems
- 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
Demonstrating the safety of an anti-obesity medication

Using data to check the safety of orlistat
- Treatment and prevention
Improving treatment of teenage anxiety and depression

Analysing trends in prescriptions to teenagers experiencing mental health problems
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Tackling preventable asthma deaths

Targeting interventions at children at high risk of asthma attacks
- Treatment and prevention
Investigating self-harm in young people

Identifying under reporting of self-harm
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy