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
Targeting back pain treatment to those most in need

Using patient data to stratify risk of long term disability.
- Individual care
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
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
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
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