On World Cancer Day, we wanted to show you how THIN® data can be used to generate insights and enable healthcare research to help improve the lives of patients at risk of and living with cancer.
At THIN®, our aim is to enable advancements in patient care and outcomes by assisting healthcare organisations with research and analysis. We are experts in the provision of fully actionable healthcare insights.
Here are just a few cancer data findings drawn from our THIN® data that can be used to tell stories about this disease.
These THIN® cancer data findings expose the prevalence of cancers amongst patients also diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension and depression. Insights like this can be used in healthcare research to identify patients at risk, power better pathways and discover safer, more effective models of care.
Our THIN® data can also be correlated with smoking criteria to identify the prevalence of cancer in populations with a smoking history.
These insights give a small window into the art of the possible with THIN data.
About THIN®
THIN® is an unobtrusive medical data collection scheme that contains anonymised longitudinal patient records for approximately 6% of the UK population. It is the key driving force behind enabling advancements in patient care and outcomes, with one of the most respected and reliable data sources for anonymised primary care records.
THIN® is one of the most respected and reliable data sources in the field of healthcare research and academic studies with over 1,000 research publications.
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