Tom Ward is a Senior Developer / Devops Engineer / Sysadmin, with nearly twenty years professional experience working with web technologies, mostly for small companies and startups, with a particular interest in open data. He has a BSc (Hons) Computer Science from Warwick University, and an MMus Music Performance (Jazz) from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. When not glued to a hot git repo, Tom can be found playing at music festivals and in small basements across Europe and beyond.
Papers by Tom Ward
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Incidence and treatment of group A streptococcal infections during covid-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care
- Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022
- Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for covid-19 in community settings
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2
- Comparative effectiveness of sotrovimab and molnupiravir for prevention of severe covid-19 outcomes in patients in the community
- Recording of ‘COVID-19 vaccine declined’
- Waning effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 covid-19 vaccines over six months since second dose
- Comparative effectiveness of ChAdOx1 versus BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines in Health and Social Care workers in England
- Representativeness of electronic health record platform OpenSAFELY-TPP data compared to the population of England
- Describing the population experiencing COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough following second vaccination in England
- Risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and immune modifying therapies
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves
- Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: primary care clinical activity in England during the first wave of COVID-19
- Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients
- Impact of national guidance on switching anticoagulant therapy during COVID-19 pandemic
- Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records