Fryback, Dennis G.

Fryback DG, Thornbury JR. The efficacy of diagnostic imaging. Med Decis Making 1991;11(2):88-94. .
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
Rosenberg, M.A., Fryback, D.G., and Lawrence, W.F., "Computing Population-Based Estimates of Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy," Med Decis Making 19(1):90-97, 1999.
Smith, J.E., Winkler, R.L., and Fryback, D.G., "The First Positive: Computing Positive Predictive Value at the Extremes," Annals of Internal Medicine 132:804-809, 2000.
Fryback, D.G., Chinnis, J.O., and Ulvila, J., "Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: An Example Using the GUSTO Trial," International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 17(1):83-97, 2001.
Fryback, D.G., Stout, N.K., and Rosenberg, M.A., "An Elementary Introduction to Bayesian Computing Using WinBUGS," International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 17(1):98-113, 2001.
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, Oct. 27 2005
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
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.
Hanmer J, Vanness D, GAngnon R, Palta M, Fryback DG. Modeling health utilities with multiple health conditions – Multiplicative models perform better than additive or minimum models for SF-6D preference-based summary scores from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey. J Clin Epidemiol (accepted Mar 2009)
Hays RD, Kim S, Spritzer KL, Kaplan RM, Tally S, Feeny D, Liu H, Fryback DG. Effects of mode and order of administration on generic health-related quality of life scores. Value in Health (accepted Mar 2009).

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

1994--Eugene L. Saenger Award for Career Service, Society for Medical Decision Making (This was the third awarded.)
1996--Fellow of Association of Health Services Research (selected by Board of Directors as career recognition).
1999--Career Achievement Award, Society for Medical Decision Making (fifth year of the award).
2000--Elected Member of Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

Summary

Professor Fryback has retired from active teaching and is no longer accepting new graduate students. He now focuses research on measuring health in populations and to inform US national health policy.

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Date last modified: 09-Apr-2009
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