Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Since 2007
Parisi JM, Rebok GW, Seeman TE, Tanner EK, Tan E, Fried LP, Xue Q-L, Frick KD, Carlson MC. Lifestyle activities in sociodemographically at-risk urban, older adults prior to participation in the Baltimore Experience Corps trial. Activities, Adaptation, and Aging. Forthcoming.
Feldman LS, Costa LL, Feroli ER Jr., Nelson T, Poe SS, Frick KD, Efird LE, Miller RG. Nurse-Pharmacist Collaboration on Medication Reconciliation Prevents Potential Harm. Journal of Hospital Medicine. Forthcoming.
Frick KD, Drye LT, Kempen JH, Dunn JP, Holland GN, Latkany P, Rao NA, Sen HN, Sugar EA, Thorne JE, Wang RC, Holbrook JT, for the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial Research Group. Associations among visual acuity and vision- and health-related quality of life among patients in the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment Trial. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Forthcoming.
Frick KD, Roebuck MC, Feldstein JI, McCarty CA, Grover LL. Health Services Utilization and Cost of Retinitis Pigmentosa. Archives of Ophthalmology. Forthcoming.
Wilson DA, Cronjé S, Frick KD, Holden BA. The Real Cost of Recycled Spectacles. Optometry and Vision Science. Forthcoming.
Liu D, Lehmann HP, Frick KD, Carter HB. Active surveillance vs. surgery in low-risk prostate cancer: a clinical decision analysis. The Journal of Urology. Forthcoming.
Sankaridurg P, Holden B, Smith E III, Naduvilath T, Chen X, Lazon de la Jara P, Martinez A, Kwan J, Ho A, Frick K, Ge J. Decrease in rate of myopia progression with a contact lens designed to reduce relative peripheral hyperopia: one-year results. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Forthcoming.
Gourin C, Frick KD. National trends in oropharyngeal cancer surgery and the effect of surgeon and hospital volume on short-term outcomes and cost of care. The Laryngoscope. Forthcoming.
Bellin M, Kub J, Frick KD, Bollinger ME, Tsoukleris M, Walker J, Land C, Butz AM. Stress and quality of life in caregivers of inner city minority children with poorly controlled asthma. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. Forthcoming.
Gourin C, Frick KD. National trends in laryngeal cancer surgery and the effect of surgeon and hospital volume on short-term outcomes and cost of care. The Laryngoscope. Forthcoming.
Ma S, Dubay L, Frick KD, Bleich SN. Racial disparities in medical expenditures by weight categories. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Forthcoming.
Ko F, Frick KD, Tzu J, He M, Congdon N. Willingness to pay for potential enhancements to a low-cost cataract surgical package in rural southern China. Acta Ophthalmologica. Forthcoming.
Rajkotia Y, Frick KD. Does household enrollment reduce adverse selection in a voluntary health insurance system? Evidence from the Ghanaian national health insurance system. Health Policy and Planning. Forthcoming.
Frick KD, Pugh LA, Milligan RA. Cost and cost-related issues of promoting breastfeeding among low-income urban mothers. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing. Forthcoming.
Ma S, Frick KD. Can we afford investing in childhood obesity interventions? Academic Pediatrics. Forthcoming.
Snyder CF, Frick KD, Herbert RJ, Blackford AL, Neville BA, Carducci MA, Earle CC. Preventive care in prostate cancer patients: following diagnosis and for five year survivors. Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice. Forthcoming.
Frick KD, McGill S, Tan EJ, Rebok GW, Carlson MC, Tanner EK, Fried LP. Costs of implementing Experience Corps in public elementary schools in Blatimore. Educational Gerontology. Forthcoming.
Kaltman JR, Thompson P, Lantos J, Berul CI, Cohen J, Cook N, Drezner J, Frick KD, Kannankeril PJ, Leslie L, Priori S, Saul JP, Sharpiro-Mendoza C, Siscovick D, Vetter VL, Botkin J, Corrado D, Goldman S, Hlatky M, Boineau R, Burns K, Friedman R.Report of the NHLBI Working Group on Screening for Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young . Circulation. Forthcoming.
Talbot LA, Metter J, Morrell CH, Frick KD, Weinstein AA, Fleg JL. Pedometer-based Intervention to Improve Physical Activity, Fitness and Coronary Heart Disease Risk in National Guard Personnel. Military Medicine. Forthcoming.
Woo J-M, Kim W, Hwang T-Y, Frick KD, Choi BH, Seo YJ, Kang E-H, Kim S-J, Ham P-J, Lee J-S, Park YL. Impact of depression on work productivity and its improvement after outpatient treatment with antidepressants. Value in Health. Forthcoming.
Lee SH, Rowan M, Powell LM, Newman S, Anderson J, Klassen AC, Frick KD, Gittelsohn H. Characteristics of prepared food sources in low-income neighborhoods of Baltimore City. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. Forthcoming.
Frick KD, Hariharan L, Repka MX, Chandler D, Melia BM, Beck RW on behalf of the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG). Cost-effectiveness of two approaches to managing nasolacrimal duct obstruction in infants: the importance of the spontaneous resolution rate. Archives of Ophthalmology. Forthcoming.
Kuo DZ. Frick KD, Minkovitz CS. Association of family-centered care with improved anticipatory guidance delivery and reduced unmet needs in child health care. Maternal and Child Health Journal. Forthcoming.
Trent M, Lehmann H, Qiang Q, Thompson C, Ellen JM, Frick KD. Adolescent and parental utilities for the health states associated with pelvic inflammatory disease. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 2011; 87(7): 583-7. [PMID: 22001169]
Nazarian S, Hansford R, Roguin A, Goldsher D, Zviman MM, Lardo AC, Caffo BS, Frick KD, Kraut MA, Kamel IR, Calkins H, Berger RD, Bluemke DA, Halperin HR. A prospective evaluation of a protocol for magnetic resonance imaging of patients with implanted cardiac devices. Ann Intern Med. 2011; 155(7): 415-24. PubMed PMID: 21969340.
Mancuso JD, Niebuhr DW, Frick KD, Keep LW, Anderson KM. Cost-Effectiveness analysis of targeted and sequential screening strategies for latent tuberculosis. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2011; 15(9): 1223-1230. PMID: 21943850.
Trent M, Ellen JM, Frick KD. Estimating the direct costs of pelvic inflammatory disease in adolescents: a within-system analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Forthcoming. [PMID: 21057380]
Newhouse R, Dennison CR, Liang Y, Morlock L, Frick KD, Pronovost P. Smoking cessation counseling by registered nurses: description and predictors in rural hospitals. American Nurse Today. Forthcoming.
Boult C, Reider L, Leff B, Frick KD, Boyd CM, Wolff JL, Frey K, Karm L, Wegener ST, Mroz T, Scharfstein DO. The effect of Guided Care teams on the use of health services: results from a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2011; 171(5): 460-66. (Correspondence Leff B, Boyd CM, Reider L, Mroz T, Karm L, Frick KD, Frey K, Wegener ST, Scharfstein DO, Wolff JL. Archives of Internal Medicine 2011; 171(5): 460-6. [Reply to a letter to the editor: Leff B, Boyd C, Reider L, Mroz T, Frick K, Frey K, Wegener ST, Scharfstein DO, Wolff JL. Archives of Internal Medicine 2011; 171(17): 1598.]
Casagrande SS, Jerome GJ, Dalcin AT, Dickerson FB, Anderson CA, Appel LJ, Charleston J, Crum RM, Young DR, Guallar E, Frick KD, Goldberg RW, Oefinger M, Gennusa JV 3rd, Campbell LM, Finkelstein J, Fred-Omojole O, Wang NY, Daumit GL. Randomized trial of achieving healthy lifestyles in psychiatric rehabilitation: the ACHIEVE trial. BMC Psychiatry. 2010; 10(1): 108.
Snyder CF, Frick KD, Blackford AL, Herbert RJ, Neville BA, Carducci MA, Earle CC. How does initial treatment choice affect short-term and long-term costs for clinically localized prostate cancer? Cancer. 2010 Dec; 116(23): 5391-9.
Jabs DA, Ahuja A, Van Natta M, Lyon A, Srivastava S, Gangaputra S; Studies of the Ocular Complications of AIDS Research Group. Course of cytomegalovirus retinitis in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: five-year outcomes. Ophthalmology. 2010 Nov;117(11):2152-61.
Puhan MA, Van Natta ML, Palella FJ, Addessi A, Meinert C; Ocular Complications of AIDS Research Group. Excess mortality in patients with AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: temporal changes and risk factors. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Oct 15;51(8):947-56.
Martinez I, Frick KD, Kim KS, Fried LP. The role of older adults and retired teachers in addressing teacher retention in urban schools. Educational Gerontology. 2010; 36(4): 263-280.
Wolff JL, Rand-Giovannetti E, Boyd CM, Reider L, Palmer S, Scharfstein D, Marsteller J, Wegener S, Frey K, Leff B, Frick KD, Boult C. Effects of Guided Care on family caregivers. The Gerontologist. 2010; 50(4): 459-70.
Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment Trial Research Group, Kempen JH, Altaweel MM, Holbrook JT, Jabs DA, Sugar EA. The multicenter uveitis steroid treatment trial: rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 2010; 149(4): 550-561.
Frick KD, Kymes SM. Lee PP, Matchar DB, Pezzullo ML, Rein DB, Taylor HR. The cost of visual impairment: purposes, perspectives and guidance. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2010; 51(4): 1801-5.
Tan E J, Tanner E, Seeman T, Frick K, Xue QL, Carlson M, Wang T, Rebok GW, McGill S, Whitfield KE, Fried LP. Marketing public health through older adult volunteering: Experience Corps® as a social marketing intervention. AJPH. 2010; 100(4): 727-34.
Frick KD, Kung JY, Parrish JM, Narrett MJ. Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of fall prevention programs that reduce fall-related hip fractures among older adults. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2010; 58(1): 136-41.
Pugh LC, Serwint JR, Frick KD, Nanda JP, Sharps PW, Spatz DL, Milligan RA. A randomized controlled community-based trial to improve breastfeeding rates among urban low-income mothers. Academic Pediatrics. 2010; 10(1): 14-20.
Gaur SK, Frick K, Dandolu V. A cost effectiveness analysis of rapid yeast detection kits. Women’s Health Issues. 2010; 20(1): 75-9.
Carnt N, Evans V, Naduvilath T, Willcox M, Papas E, Frick, K, Holden BA. Contact lens-related adverse event rates vary with the combination of silicone hydrogel lens and daily wear care system used. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2009; 127(12): 1616-23.
Frick KD, Riva-Clement L, Shankar MB. Screening for refractive error and fitting with spectacles in rural and urban India: cost-effectiveness. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2009; 16(6): 378-87.
Spencer CS, Frick KD, Gower EW, Kempen JH, Wolff JL. Disparities in Access to Medical Care for Individuals with Vision Impairment. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2009; 16(5): 281-8.
Yoon D, Frick KD, Carr DA, Austin JK. Economic impact of epilepsy in the United States. Epilepsia. 2009; 50(10): 2186-91.
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. 2009; 15(8): 555-9.
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. 2009; 12(6): 1011-7.
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. 2009; 87(6): 431-437.
Nguyen GC, Frick KD, Dassopoulos T. Medical decision analysis for the management of unifocal, flat low-grade dysplasia in ulcerative colitis. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2009 Jun;69(7):1299-310.
Young Y, Fan MY, Parrish JM, Frick KD. Validation of a novel successful aging construct. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2009; 10(5): 314-322.
Guyer B, Ma S, Grason H, Frick K, Perry D, Sharkey A, McIntosh J. Early childhood health promotion and its life-course health consequences. Academic Pediatrics. 2009; 9(3): 142-149. e1-71..
Sorensen SV, Frick KD, Wade A, Simko R, Burge R. Model-Based Simulation to Explore the Cost-Effectiveness of Following Practice Guidelines for Triglyceride and Low Density Lipoprotein Control Among Diabetic Patients with Mixed Dyslipidemia. Clinical Therapeutics. 2009; 31(4): 862-79..
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. 2009; 24(4):469-74.
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. 2009; 27(7):1054-61.
Racine E, Frick K, Guthrie J, Strobino D. Individual net-benefit maximization: a model for understanding breastfeeding cessation among low-income women. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2009; 13(2):241-9..
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.
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. 2009; 25(2): 173-81.
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.
