Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences
Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Email: dfryback@wisc.edu
Biography:
Prof. Fryback joined the faculty at UW in 1975 and retired from active teaching in 2008. He specialized in methodological issues underpinning medical decision making, cost-effectiveness analysis of health care interventions, and health policy. Evaluation of imaging technologies, computer simulation applied to understanding natural history of breast cancer, evaluation of preventive interventions, and application of Bayesian analysis to cost-effectiveness computations, and application of health-related quality of life measures to populations are among the projects he headed. He continues to conduct research using the data set he helped to create, the National Health Measurement Study, which is now publicly available.
Dr. Fryback was a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force and also of the US Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, two working groups which have been influential for US policy about comparative effectiveness research methods in health care. Among many honors he received are the career achievement award of the Society for Medical Decision Making, which he helped to found over 30 years ago, and election to the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies. An occasional visitor to Population Health Sciences, Dr. Fryback now resides in Huntington Beach, California. (Download CV)
Affiliations/Associations:
- Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
- International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Select Publications: (forgive me ... I’ve tried to select a career’s worth! so list is a bit long)
Fryback DG, Thornbury JR. Informal use of decision theory to improve radiological patient management. Radiology 1978;129(2):385-8.
Fryback DG, Keeney, RL. Constructing a complex judgmental model: An index of trauma severity. Management Science 1983; 29(8):869-883.
Fryback DG, Thornbury JR. The efficacy of diagnostic imaging. Med Decis Making 1991;11(2):88-94.
Frame PS, Fryback DG, Patterson C. Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in men ages 60 to 80 years. A cost-effectiveness analysis. Ann Intern Med 1993;119(5):411-6.
Fryback DG, Dasbach EJ, Klein R, Klein BE, Dorn N, Peterson K, et al. The Beaver Dam Health Outcomes Study: initial catalog of health-state quality factors. Med Decis Making 1993;13(2):89-102.
Albertsen PC, Fryback DG, Storer BE, Kolon TF, Fine J. Long-term survival among men with conservatively treated localized prostate cancer. JAMA 1995;274(8):626-31.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. [C DiGuissepi, D Atkins, S Woolf, D Kamerow, Eds.] Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1996. (Contributing Task Force member.)
Gold, MR, Siegel JE, Russell LB, Weinsten MC [Eds.] Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1996. (Contributing Panel member.)
Fryback DG, Lawrence WF. Dollars may not buy as many QALYs as we think: A problem with defining quality of life adjustments. Medical Decision Making 1997;17(3):276-84.
Rosenberg MA,Fryback DG,Lawrence WF. Computing population-based estimates of health-adjusted life expectancy. Med Decis Making 1999;19(1):90-7
Smith JE, Winkler RL, Fryback DG. The first positive: Computing positive predictive value at the extremes. Annals of Internal Medicine 2000; 132:804-809.
Fryback DG, Chinnis JO, Ulvila, J. Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis: An example using the GUSTO trial. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2001;17(1):83-97.
Gold MR, Stevenson D, Fryback DG. HALYS and QALYS and DALYS, Oh My: Similarities and differences in summary measures of population health. Annual Review of Public Health, 2002;23:115-134.
Pisano E, Gatsonis C, Yaffe M, Hendrick E, Tosteson AN, Fryback DG, Bassett L, Baum JK, Conant E, Jong R, Rebner M, D’Orsi C. The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST): Objectives and Methodology. Radiology, 2005; 236(2):404-412.
Berry DA, Cronin KA, Plevritis SK, Fryback DG, Clarke L, Zelen M, Mandelblatt JS, Yakovlev AY, Habbema JDF, and Feuer EJ, for the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) Collaborators, Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 2005; 353:1784-1792.
Fryback DG, Stout NK, Rosenberg MA, Trentham-Dietz A, Kuruchittham V, Remington PL. Chapter 7: The Wisconsin breast cancer epidemiology simulation model. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs, 2006(36):37-47.
Stout NK, Rosenberg MA, Trentham-Dietz A, Smith MA, Robinson SM, Fryback DG. Retrospective Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Screening Mammography. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2006; 98(11):774 –782.
Miller W, Robinson LA, Lawrence RS [Eds.] and Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation. Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. The National Academies Press: Washington DC. 2006. (Contributing IOM committee member.)
Hanmer JE, Lawrence WF, Anderson JP, Kaplan RM, Fryback DG. Report of nationally representative values for the non-institutionalized U.S. adult population for seven health related quality of life scores. Medical Decision Making, 2006; 26(4): 391-400.
Fryback DG, Dunham NC, Palta M, Hanmer J, Buechner J, Cherepanov D, Herrington S, Hays RD, Kaplan RM, Ganiats TG, Feeny D, Kind P. U.S. norms for six generic health-related quality-of-life indexes from the National Health Measurement Study. Medical Care, 2007; 45(12):1162-1170
Tosteson ANA, Stout NK,Fryback DG, Acharyya S, Herman B, Hanna L, Pisano E. Cost-effectiveness of digital mammography breast cancer screening. Ann Intern Med, 2008; 148(1):1-10.
Trentham-Dietz A, Sprague BL, Klein R, Klein BEK, Cruickshanks KJ, Fryback DG, Hampton JM. Health-Related Quality of Life Before and After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2008; 109(2):379-387. Epub 2007 Aug 3.
Robert SA, Cherepanov D, Palta M, Cross Dunham N, Feeny D, Fryback DG. Socioeconomic status and age variations in health-related quality of life: Results from the National Health Measurement Study. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2009 May;64(3):378-89. Epub 2009 Mar 23.
Fryback DG, Palta M, Cherepanov D, Bolt D, Kim J-S. Comparison of five health-related quality-of-life indexes using item response theory analysis. Medical Decision Making (in press July 2009)
Courses Taught:
Prof. Fryback developed PHS 875, Assessing Medical Technologies, and taught it from 1989 to 2003.
He also redeveloped the course PHS 876, “Measuring Health Outcomes”, and taught it from 2004-2007.
He co-developed and organized the PHS undergraduate introduction to population health sciences.
Research Weblinks:
http://www.healthmeasurement.org/
Contact Details:
Address:
16451 Harbour Lane,
Huntington Beach,
CA 92649
Phone: 608-262-5997
Fax: 608-262-5997
Email: dfryback@wisc.edu
