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There is a wide range of ways that patient data can be used to provide better care and improve health. Explore the case studies to learn more. Please let us know if you have good examples to share.

Impact of work
  • Diagnosis (10)
  • (-) Individual care (12)
  • Patient safety (7)
  • Planning (17)
  • Policy (13)
  • Treatment and prevention (36)
  • Understanding disease (20)
Disease type or population group
  • Asthma (2)
  • Autism (1)
  • Cancer (2)
  • Cardiovascular disease (2)
  • Child and paediatric health (1)
  • COPD (1)
  • Infectious disease (1)
  • Kidney disease (2)
  • Mental health (1)
  • Musculoskeletal conditions (1)
  • Pregnancy and maternal health (1)
  • Rare diseases (1)
Sources of data
  • Cancer Registration (3)
  • GP records (4)
  • Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) (4)
  • Office for National Statistics (ONS) (1)
  • Research cohorts (1)
Location
  • England (3)
  • Europe (1)
  • Scotland (2)
  • UK (6)
Type of organisation
  • Charity (11)
  • Commercial organisation (5)
  • (-) Government (6)
  • NHS (13)
  • (-) University (8)
Media
  • Case study with video (3)
  • 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
  • Supporting research into rare kidney disease

    Using registry data to search for treatments for rare diseases

    • Individual care
    • Understanding disease
    • Treatment and prevention
  • Improving dialysis treatment in the UK

    Linking data to analyse kidney patients' treatment

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
    • Planning
  • Planning services for people living with and beyond cancer

    Using patient data to look at what happens to someone after receiving a cancer diagnosis

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
    • Planning
  • Mobile health approaches for asthma

    Evaluating the effectiveness of a new 'smart inhaler'

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention
  • Working out who is at risk of cardiovascular disease

    Using data to inform a risks assessment tool for cardiovascular disease

    • Individual care
    • Diagnosis
    • 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
  • Improving treatments for COPD

    Real-time monitoring of a new treatment for COPD in Salford

    • Individual care
    • Treatment and prevention

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