Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Learning more about blood cancer

Data from thousands of people is giving new insights into blood cancer
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Evaluating bowel cancer care in Yorkshire

Using patient data to identify and improve areas of poor practice
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Demonstrating the safety of an anti-obesity medication

Using data to check the safety of orlistat
- Treatment and prevention
Investigating self-harm in young people

Identifying under reporting of self-harm
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Monitoring joint replacement surgery

Analysing registry data to improve performance and safety
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Studying the health of a million women

Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Investigating the national uptake of emergency operations for heart attack

Using registry data to examine rates of emergency coronary intervention
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
How does lifestyle affect health?

Using patient data to understand the impact of diet on health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Improving dialysis treatment in the UK

Linking data to analyse kidney patients' treatment
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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