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Kevin Frick
Associate Professor
Academic Degrees
PhD, MA
Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Joint Departmental Affiliations
Economics; Ophthalmology; International Health; Nursing
Departmental Address
624 N. Broadway, Rm 606
Baltimore MD 21205-1901
Phone: 410-614-4018
Fax: 410-955-0470
Research and Professional Experience

He combines his knowledge of economic analysis with clinical and epidemiological insights from his colleagues to produce cost-effectiveness analyses that bring the tools of economic decision making to policy-makers. He has focused on community-based interventions such as the Baltimore City Healthy Start program, the Experience Corps volunteer program for older adults, and an intervention to increase breastfeeding duration among low income women. These often occur complete outside of a physician's office, but have the opportunity to have a substantial impact on health.

At present, his main focus is cost-effectiveness studies dealing with eye care and nursing. He has published several international cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies or framework papers on blinding trachoma, and is extending his work to include vision care services in the United States.

His newest venture, should he be able to obtain funding, is a plan to extend quality of life measurement methods.

Keywords

Health Policy and Management; cost benefit; cost effectiveness; economic evaluation; OpenCourseWare; community interventions; prevention; ophthalmology; nursing; economics; quality of life

Honors and Awards

Student Coordinating Committee Faculty Award, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health and Management (2001)

Atlantic Economic Journal Best Article Award for “Cross product subsidization in the health insurance market with managed care: a model and issues” (2000)

National Institute on Aging, Summer Institute on Aging Research (1997)

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Since 2006

Rand-Giovannetti E, Wolff JL, Frick KD, Boult C. Construct validity of the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire across informal caregivers of chronically ill older patients. Value in Health. Forthcoming.

Leff B, Reider L, Frick KD, Scharfstein D, Boyd CM, Frey K, Karm L, Boult C. “Guided Care” and the cost of complex health care. American Journal of Managed Care. Forthcoming.

Guyer B, Ma S, Grason H, Frick K, Perry D, Sharkey A, McIntosh J. Early childhood health promotion and its life-course health consequences. Ambulatory Pediatrics. Forthcoming.

Snyder CF, Frick KD, Peairs KS, Kantsiper ME, Herbert RJ, Blackford AL, Wolff AC, Earle CC. Comparing care for breast cancer survivors to non-cancer controls: a five-year longitudinal study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Forthcoming.

Snyder CF, Frick KD, Kantsiper ME, Peairs KS, Herbert RJ, Blackford AL, Wolff AC, Earle CC. Prevention, screening, and surveillance care for breast cancer survivors vs. controls: changes from 1998-2002. Journal of Clinical Oncology. Forthcoming.

Smith TST, Frick KD, Holden BA, Fricke TR, Naidoo KS. Potential lost productivity resulting from the global burden of uncorrected refractive error. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Forthocming.

Nguyen GC, Frick KD, Dassopoulos T. Medical decision analysis for the management of unifocal, flat low-grade dysplasia in ulcerative colitis. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Forthcoming.

Racine EF, Frick KD, Strobino D, Carpenter LM, Milligan R, Pugh L. How Motivation Influences Breastfeeding Duration among Low-Income Women. Journal of Human Lactation. Forthcoming.

Racine E, Frick K, Guthrie J, Strobino D. A comprehensive look at breastfeeding cessation among low-income mothers. Maternal and Child Health Journal. Forthcoming.

Young Y, Frick KD, Phelan EA. Can Successful Aging and Chronic Illness Coexist in the Same Individual? A multidimensional definition of successful aging. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2009; 10(2):87-92.

Frick KD, Burton L, Clark B, Mader SI., Naughton B, Burl J, Greenough III WB, Steinwachs D, Leff B. Substitutive Hospital at Home for older persons: effects on costs. American Journal of Managed Care. 2009; 15(1): 49-56.

Frick KD, Clark MA, Steinwachs DM, Langenberg P, Stovall D, Munro MG, Dickersin K and the STOP-DUB Research Group. Economic burden of dysfunctional uterine bleeding among women agreeing to obtain surgical treatment. Women’s Health Issues. 2009; 19(1): 70-78.

Famadas JC, Frick KD, Haydar ZR, Nicewander D, Ballard D, Boult C. The effects of interdisciplinary outpatient geriatrics on the use, costs and quality of health services in the fee-for-service environment. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 2008; 20(6):556-61.

Carlson MC, Saczynski JS, Rebok GW, Seeman T, Glass TA, McGill S, Tielsch J, Frick KD, Hill K, Fried LP. Exploring the Effects of an “Everyday” Activity Program on Executive Function and Memory in Older Adults: Experience Corps®. The Gerontologist. 2008; 48(6): 793-801.

Holden BA, Fricke TR, Ho SM, Wong R, Schlenther G, Cronjé S, Burnett A, Papas E, Naidoo KS, Frick KD.

Global vision impairment due to uncorrected presbyopia. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2008; 126(12): 1731-9.

Smith CA, Frick KD. Cost utility analysis of high vs. low intensity home and community based service interventions. Journal of Health and Social Policy. 2008; 23(6): 75-98.

Frick KD, Sorenson SV, Hollenbeak C. How inducing covariation in simulated HDL-C, triglyceride, and total cholesterol data affects Framingham risk equation results. Value in Health. 2008; 11(5): 939-945..

Nevin RL, Shuping EE, Frick KD, Gaydos JC, Gaydos CA. Cost and effectiveness of Chlamydia screening among male military recruits: Markov modeling of complications averted through notification of prior female partners. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2008; 35(8):705-13.

Ngongo CJ, Mathingau FA, Burke H, Brieger W, Frick K, Chapman K, Breiman R. Community participation to refine measures of socio-economic status for use in urban slum settings. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 2007-2008; 28(1): 33-49.

Luce B, Nichol KL, Belshe RB, Frick KD, Li SX, Boscoe A, Rousculp M, Mahadevia PJ. Cost-effectiveness of live attenuated influenza vaccine versus inactivated influenza vaccine among children aged 24-59 months in the United States Vaccine. Vaccine. 2008; 26(23):2841-8.

Baruwa E, Tzu J, Congdon N, He M, Frick KD. Reversal in gender valuations of cataract surgery after the implementation of a free screening and low priced high quality surgery in a rural population of southern China. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2008; 15(2): 99-104.

Snyder CF, Earle CC, Herbert RJ, Neville BA, Blackford AL, Frick KD. Preventive Care for Colorectal Cancer Survivors: a 5-Year Longitudinal Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2008; 26(7): 1073-9.

Snyder CF, Earle CC, Herbert RJ, Neville BA, Blackford AL, Frick KD. Trends in follow-up and preventive care for colorectal cancer survivors. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2008; 23(3): 254-9.

Thorpe R, Kasper J, Szanton S, Frick K, Fried L, Simonsick E. Relationship of Race and Poverty to Lower Extremity Function and Decline: Findings from the Women's Health and Aging Study. Social Science and Medicine. 2008; 66(4): 811-21.

Schmitt J, Meurer M, Klon M, Frick K. Assessment of health state utilities of controlled and uncontrolled psoriasis and atopic eczema – A population-based study. British journal of Dermatology. 2008; 158(2): 351-9.

Frick KD, Walt JG, Chiang TH, Doyle JJ, Stern LS, Katz LM, Dolgitser M, Hendlish SK. Direct costs of blindness experienced by patients enrolled in managed care. Ophthalmology. 2008; 115(1): 11-7.

Gaskin D, Frick KD. Race and ethnic disparities in valuing health. Medical Decision Making. 2008; 28(1): 12-20.

Gittelsohn J, Franceschini MC, Rasooly I, Ries AV, Ho LS, Pavlovich W, Santos VT, Jennings S, Frick KD. Understanding the food environment in a low income urban setting: implications for food store interventions. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 2007; 2(2/3): 33-50.

Gittelsohn J, Dyckman W, Alfred J, Boggs MK, Haberle H., Frick KD, Vastine A, and Palafox N. A pilot food store intervention is associated with improved health knowledge, food purchasing and preparation behaviors in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Pacific Health Dialogue. 2007;14(2):43-53.

Dickersin K, Munro MG, Clark M, Langenberg P, Scherer R, Frick K, Zhu Q, Hallock L, Nichols J, Yalcinkaya TM; Surgical Treatments Outcomes Project for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (STOP-DUB) Research Group. Results of a randomized trial comparing hysterectomy and endometrial ablation for dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2007; 110(6): 1279-89.

Deremiak J, Broman AT, Friedman D, West SK, Massof R, Park W, Bandeen-Roche K, Frick K, Munoz B. Low vision rehabilitation in a nursing home population: the SEEING study. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 2007; 101(11): 701-714.

Dy SM, Wolff JL, Frick KD. Patient Characteristics and End-of-Life Health Care Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries in 1989 and 1999. Medical Care. 2007; 45(10): 926-930.

Bristow RE, Santillan A, Salani R, Diaz-Montes TP, Giuntoli RL, Meisner BC, Armstrong DK, Frick KD. Intraperitoneal Cisplatin and Paclitaxel versus intravenous Carboplatin and Paclitaxel chemotherapy for Stage III ovarian cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Gynecologic Oncology. 2007; 106(3): 476-81.

Jampel HD, Frick KD, Janz NK, Wren PA, Musch DC, Lichter PR, for the CIGTS Study Group. Depression and mood indicators in newly diagnosed glaucoma patients. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 2007; 144(2): 238-244.

Frick KD, Gower EW, Kempen JH, Wolff JL. Economic impact of visual impairment and blindness in the United States. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2007; 125(4): 544-550.

Bristow RE, Santillan A, Diaz-Montes TP, Gardner GJ, Giuntoli II RL, Meisner BC, Frick KD,Armstrong DK. Centralization of care for patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Cancer. 2007; 109(8): 1513-1522.

He M, Chan V, Baruwa E, Gilbert D, Frick K, Congdon N. Willingness to pay for cataract surgery in rural southern China. Ophthalmology. 2007; 114(3):411-6.

Kjerulff KH, Frick KD, Rhoades JA, Hollenbeak CS. The cost of being a woman: a national study of health care utilization and expenditures for female specific conditions. Women’s Health Issues. 2007; 17(1):13-21.

Wolff JL, Dy SM, Frick KD, Kasper JD. End of life care: Findings from a national survey of informal caregivers. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2007; 167(1): 40-46.

Fullerton JT, Frick KD, Fogarty LA, Fishel JD, Vivio DM. Active management of third stage labor saves facility costs in Guatemala and Zambia. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition. 2006; 24(4): 540-551.

Nevin RL, Niebuhr DW, Frick KD, Grabenstein JD. Improving soldier care through outcomes research: the accession screening & immunization program. US Army Medical Department Journal. 2006; July-September: 30-38.

Mahadevia AA, Nundy S, Frick KD, Jampel HD. Medicare prescription drug cards: do they benefit glaucoma patients?. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2006; 124(8): 1175-1179.

Martinez IL, Frick K, Glass TA, Carlson M, Tanner E, Ricks M, Fried LP. Engaging Older Adults in High Impact Volunteering that Enhances Health: Recruitment and Retention in the Experience Corps((R)) Baltimore. Journal of Urban Health. 2006; 83(5): 941-53.

Frick K, Bopp A. Insurance theory and the medically uninsured. Atlantic Economic Journal. 2005. 33: 451-9.

Yoo BK, Frick KD. The instrumental variable method to study self-selection mechanism: a case of influenza vaccination. Value in Health. 2006; 9(2):114-22.

Lofland J, Frick KD. Workplace absenteeism and aspects of access to health care for individuals with migraine headache. Headache. 2006; 46: 563-576.

Lofland JH, Frick KD. Effect of health insurance on workplace absenteeism in the US workforce. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2006; 48(1):13-21.

Invited Since 2006

Frick KD. Micro-Costing Quantity Data Collection Methods. Medical Care. Forthcoming.

Frick KD, Kunz JL. Understanding cost-effectiveness research applied to social work. Social Work in Public Health. 2008; 23(6): 7-21.

Frick KD, Shi L, Gaskin DJ. Level of evidence of the value of care in FQHCs for policy making. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. 2007; 1(1): 75-82..

Frick KD. Cost-effectiveness studies of behavior change communication campaigns in relation to the cost-effectiveness studies of health interventions: similarities, differences and how to move the field forward. Journal of Health Communication. 2006; 11: 163-173.

Frick KD. Economic evaluation of different systems for cataract surgery and anesthesia. Ophthalmology Clinics of North America. 2006; 19(2): 309-15.

Editorials Since 2006

Frick KD. The dollars and the sense of economics interacting with nursing. Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research. Forthcoming.

Frick KD, Ma S. Overcoming challenges for the economic evaluation of investments in children’s health. Ambulatory Pediatrics. Forthcoming.

Kymes S, Frick KD. Editorial on “Reported eye care utilization and health insurance status among U.S. adults.” Archives of Ophthalmology. 2009; 127(3): 335-6.

Frick KD. Epidemiological Economics. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2008; 15(2): 73-5.

Frick KD, Walker DG. Economic welfare implications of differently structured vision care markets. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2008; 92(3): 301-2.

Frick KD, Jones AS. Gender bias in economic evaluation methods: quality of life and family role effects. Women’s Health Issues. 2008; 18(1): 4-6.

Jones AS, Frick KD. Gender bias in economic evaluation methods: time costs and productivity loss. Women’s Health Issues. 2008; 18(1): 1-3.

Frick KD, Baruwa EM. The Paradox of Economic Tools Promoting Equitable Access to Self-Sustainable Services for the Poorest: Increased Inequality. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 2007; 12(7): 799-801.

Frick KD, Clark MA. A framework for comparing data collection methods for measuring costs and other outcomes that are aggregated over time. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2006; 13(6): 351-4.

Frick KD, Clark MA, Martin BK, Grover LL. A call for empirical research on best practices for economic evaluation in ophthalmic outcomes research. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2006; 13(2): 81-3.

Frick KD, Kymes S. The calculation and use of economic burden data. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2006; 90(3): 255-257.

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