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CER Interview with Dr. Kevin Frick
| Type: | Podcast |
| Date: | December 5, 2011 |
| Related Topics: | Aging Research, Drug Development, Drug Safety, Health, Medical Innovation, Policy, Research, Vision Loss |
Kevin Frick, PhD, MA is a health economist who has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for nearly 15 years. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He has taught about and performed cost-effectiveness research and other research comparing costs and outcomes of care or interventions for most of his career.
He has taught in the School of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University both as a guest lecturer and as the instructor running most of the health economics and finance course for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Students. The lecture he is asked to give most commonly is an overview of economics and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has participated in a number of research projects with colleagues at the School of Nursing—each of which has focused on measuring costs related to interventions that are being led by nurse researchers.
In addition to his work with the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, he has lectured at the Schools of Nursing at Loyola University of Chicago, at Columbia University, at the University of Maryland, at Pace University, and at the Univeristy of Indiana. He has presented plenary sessions at the Southern Nursing Research Society, at the NDNQI Meeting, and at several other nursing meetings. He has completed four years of service on the National Institute for Nursing Research Advisory Council. Prior to his membership on the Council and once while he has been on the Council he has helped to organize workshops on cost-effectiveness for nurse researchers.
His focus on cost-effectiveness and comparative effectiveness in nursing and in eye care demonstrates his clear interest in this area.
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He has taught in the School of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University both as a guest lecturer and as the instructor running most of the health economics and finance course for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Students. The lecture he is asked to give most commonly is an overview of economics and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has participated in a number of research projects with colleagues at the School of Nursing—each of which has focused on measuring costs related to interventions that are being led by nurse researchers.
In addition to his work with the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, he has lectured at the Schools of Nursing at Loyola University of Chicago, at Columbia University, at the University of Maryland, at Pace University, and at the Univeristy of Indiana. He has presented plenary sessions at the Southern Nursing Research Society, at the NDNQI Meeting, and at several other nursing meetings. He has completed four years of service on the National Institute for Nursing Research Advisory Council. Prior to his membership on the Council and once while he has been on the Council he has helped to organize workshops on cost-effectiveness for nurse researchers.
His focus on cost-effectiveness and comparative effectiveness in nursing and in eye care demonstrates his clear interest in this area.
"If we can get the same main impact with no worse side effect profile and spend two orders of magnitude less on it, by all means, I think everyone would agree that would be a better buy…I think the main thing people are waiting to see is can we spend a lot less money without having to give up on the clinical outcomes, or are we really back in the same situation that we often are, which is thinking about whether or not to make trade-offs and how to make trade-offs as we spend more money to get what would presumably be a better clinical outcome from the more expensive product."
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