Case studies | Understand Patient Data

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
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
Prescribing statins to men without a history of heart attacks

Demonstrating the health and cost benefits of statin use
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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