Terri R. Fried, M.D.

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Co-Director; The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
  

Research Interests

Dr. Fried is a graduate of the Harvard Fellowship Training Program in Geriatrics and Clinical Effectiveness. She is the recipient of a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award, a VA Career Development Award, a VA Merit Award, and the 2004 American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award. She is the Director of the Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core for the Yale Pepper Center. The long-term goal of Dr. Fried's research is to improve treatment decision-making for older persons. It seeks to enhance the frequency and quality of shared decision-making in order to provide patients with care that best meets their treatment preferences. In order to achieve this goal, her research has focused on a) expanding the treatment choices available to older persons for their care, b) eliciting their preferences for these different options, and c) identifying barriers to honoring patients' preferences.

Selected Publications

1. Fried TR, Pollack DM, Tinetti ME. Factors associated with six-month mortality in recipients of community-based long-term care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1998;46:193-197.
2. Fried TR, Wachtel TJ, Tinetti ME. When the patient cannot come to the doctor: a medical housecalls program. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1998;46:226-231. (With editorial).
3. Fried TR, van Doorn C, Tinetti ME, Drickamer MA. Older persons’ preferences for site of treatment in acute illness. J Gen Intern Med. 1998;13:522-527.
4. Fried TR, Pollack DM, Tinetti ME, Drickamer MA. Who dies at home? Determinants of site of death for community-based long-term care patients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1999;47:25-29.
5. Fried TR, van Doorn C, O’Leary JR, Tinetti ME, Drickamer MA. Older persons’ preferences for site of terminal care. Ann Intern Med. 1999;131:109-111.
6. Fried TR, van Doorn C, O’Leary JR, Tinetti ME, Drickamer MA. Older persons’ perceptions of home and hospital as acute illness treatment sites. Am J Med. 1999;107:317-323.
7. Fried TR, van Doorn C, O’Leary JR, Tinetti ME, Drickamer MA. Older persons’ preferences for home vs. hospital care in the treatment of acute illness. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1501-1506.
8. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Williams CS, Tinetti ME. Functional disability and government expenditures for the healthcare of older persons. Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:2602-2607.
9. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR, Allore H. Understanding seriously ill patients' preferences for treatments and their outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:1061-1066 (with editorial).
10. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR. Patient preferences: integrating treatments and outcomes. J Gerontol Soc Sci.; 2002;57:S348-S354.
11. Fried TR, Bradley EH. What matters to older seriously ill person making treatment decisions? A qualitative study. J Pall Med. 2003;6:237-244.
12. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR. Valuing the outcomes of treatment: Do patients and their caregivers agree? Arch Intern Med. 2003; 163:2073-2078.
13. Fried TR, Bradley EH, O'Leary J. Prognosis communication in serious illness: perceptions of patient, caregivers, and clinicians. J Am Geriatric Soc. 2003;51:1398-1403.
14. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR, Allore H. Understanding the treatment preferences of seriously ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:1061-1066.
15. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR. Patient preferences: integrating treatments and outcomes. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2002;57:S348-S354.
16. Fried TR, Bradley EH. What matters to older seriously ill persons making treatment decisions? A qualitative study. J Pall Med. 2003;6:237-244.
17. Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR. Valuing the outcomes of treatment: Do patients and their caregivers agree? Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2073-2078.
18. Fried TR, Bradley EH, O'Leary J. Prognosis communication in serious illness: perceptions of patients, caregivers, and clinicians. J Am Geriatric Soc. 2003;51:1398-1403.
19. Tinetti ME, Fried TR. The end of the disease era. Am J Med. 2004;116;179-185.
20. Fried TR, Bradley EH, O'Leary JR, Byers AL. Unmet desire for caregiver-patient communication and increased caregiver burden J Am Geriatr Soc 2005;53:59-67 .
21. Goldstein NE , Concato J, Bradley EH, O’Leary JR, Fried TR. Doctor-patient communication about prognosis: the influence of race and economic status. J Pall Med 2005;8:998-1004.
22. Cherlin E, Fried T, Prigerson HG, Schulman-Green D, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Bradley EH. Communication between physicians and family caregivers about care at the end of life: When do we talk and what do we say? J Pall Med 2005;8:1176-1185.
23. Walke LM, Byers AL, McCorkle R, Fried TR. Symptom assessment in community-dwelling older adults with advanced chronic disease. J Pain Sympt Manage 2006;31:31-37.
24. Fried TR, Bradley EH, O’Leary JR. Change in prognostic awareness over time among seriously ill older persons and their caregivers. J Pall Med 2006;9:61-69.
25. Belcher VN, Fried TR, Agostini JV, Tinetti ME. Views of older adults on patient participation in medication-related decision-making. J Gen Intern Med 2006;21:298-303.
26. Fried TR , Byers AL, Gallo WT, Van Ness PH, Towle VR, O’Leary JR, Dubin JA. Prospective study of health status preferences and changes in preferences over time in older adults. Arch Intern Med 2006;166:890-895.*