George Hickman
Consultant Software Developer
George is a consultant programmer working on OpenSAFELY tooling. George has spent the last ten years working with start-ups, agencies and his own consultancy helping technical teams to build better software. He is enjoying building tools to support medical research.
Papers by George Hickman
- Primary care coding activity related to the use of online consultation systems or remote consulting
- 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 COVID-19 on azathioprine, leflunomide and methotrexate monitoring, and factors associated with change in monitoring rate
- 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
- Gout incidence and management during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, UK
- 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’
- Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity
- 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
- Safety of COVID-19 vaccination and acute neurological events
- Accident and emergency (AE) attendance in England following infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron or Delta
- Rates of serious clinical outcomes in survivors of hospitalisation with COVID-19 in England
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves
- Overall and cause-specific hospitalisation and death after COVID-19 hospitalisation
- 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
- Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory System Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant (B.1.1.7) in England
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records
- Case fatality risk of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7
- Changes in the rate of cardiometabolic and pulmonary events during the COVID-19 pandemic