James F Fries
Biographic Data
| ID | 1734342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James F Fries |
| GIVEN NAMES | James F |
| FAMILY NAME | Fries |
| SIGNATURE | FRIES J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Validation of the PROMIS physical function measures in a diverse US population-based cohort of cancer patients
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008
Regular Vigorous Physical Activity and Disability Development in Healthy Overweight and Normal-Weight Seniors: A 13-Year Study
Objectives. We examined the relationship of regular exercise and body weight to disability among healthy seniors. Methods. We assessed body mass index (BMI) and vigorous exercise yearly (1989–2002) in 805 participants aged 50 to 72 years at enrollment. We studied 4 groups: normal-weight active (BMI 2 ; exercise> 60 min/wk); normal-weight inactive (exercise≤ 60 min/wk); overweight active (BMI≥ 25 kg/m 2 ); and overweight inactive. Disability was m…
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): Progress of an NIH Roadmap Cooperative Group During its First Two Years
The NIH PROMIS network derived a consensus-based framework for self-reported health, systematically reviewed available instruments and datasets that address the initial PROMIS domains. Qualitative item research led to the first wave of network testing which began in the second year
The Compression of Morbidity
I n this century we are progressing through three separate eras with dramatically different characteristics of health and illness. We entered the century in an era of infectious disease, with tuberculosis the number one killer of our population, and smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, and other infectious illnesses extremely prevalent. A reduction in mortality from these diseases of over 99 percent Atherosclerosis and its complications, neoplasia, emp…
Long-Term Randomized Controlled Trials of Tailored-Print and Small-Group Arthritis Self-Management Interventions
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of a mail-delivered, tailored self-management intervention (SMART) and to compare it with the classic Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP). METHODS: We performed 2 randomized controlled trials: 1) a study of 1090 participants randomized to SMART or USUAL CARE, and 2) a study of 341 participants randomized to SMART or ASMP. Dependent variables included disability, pain, depre…
Aging, Health Risks, and Cumulative Disability
BACKGROUND: Persons with lower health risks tend to live longer than those with higher health risks, but there has been concern that greater longevity may bring with it greater disability. We performed a longitudinal study to determine whether persons with lower potentially modifiable health risks have more or less cumulative disability. METHODS: We studied 1741 university alumni who were surveyed first in 1962 (average age, 43 years) and then an…
Reducing the Need and Demand for Medical Services
Stanford University School of Medicine; Department of Medicine; 1000 Welch Road, Suite 203; Palo Alto, CA 94304-1808. Some portions of this editorial were adapted, with permission, from an article in Healthcare Forum Journal, 1993
Assessment of quality of life in early stage HIV-infected persons: Data from the Aids Time- Oriented Health Outcome Study (Athos)
Can preventive gerontology be on the way
Can preventive gerontology be on the way? J F FriesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.10.1591 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Correlations between education and arthritis in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
Health Status Among Persons Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Community-Based Study
From the Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Standford University, Stanford, California
Tobit, fixed effects, and cohort analyses of the relationship between severity and duration of rheumatoid arthritis
Changes in quality of life among persons with HIV infection
Gender and race differences in the correlation between body mass and education in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
STUDY OBJECTIVE--Differences in the correlation between body mass index and education across four gender and race groups were investigated while simultaneously accounting for occupation, income, marital status, and age. DESIGN--The study used analysis of covariance techniques to calculate average body mass and confidence intervals within education categories while simultaneously adjusting for the covariates: age, square of age, family income, mar…
Improvement in intergenerational health
Differences in health status between subjects, their parents, and their children were analyzed in 2206 subjects who had attended the University of Pennsylvania during the 1939 to 1940 school year. Subjects compared their overall health status at the average age of 70 with that of their same-sex parent at the same age and with that of their same-sex child at the approximate average age of 45, providing reasons for reported differences. Thus, healt…
Disability in occupations in a national sample
OBJECTIVES. We sought to develop lists of jobs whose members reported high and low levels of functional disability. METHODS. Samples of women (n = 6096) and men (n = 3653) were drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiological Follow-up. Disability was measured with a modified Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire. We analyzed women and men separately, and we calculated average disability indices within longest-…
The dimensions of health outcomes: A cross-validated examination of health status measurement
Two independently developed patient outcome measurement instruments were administered to forty-eight subjects with rheumatoid arthritis using a random cross-over design. The independent estimates of physical disability and pain are highly correlated. Each instrument displayed highly significant relationships with global health, providing evidence for convergent validity. The results demonstrate that health status is composed of at least three maj…
Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity
The average length of life has risen from 47 to 73 years in this century, but the maximum life span has not increased. Therefore, survival curves have assumed an ever more rectangular form. Eighty per cent of the years of life lost to nontraumatic, premature death have been eliminated, and most premature deaths are now due to the chronic diseases of the later years. Present data allow calculation of the ideal average life span, approximately 85 y…
Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis
A structure for representation of patient outcome is presented, together with a method for outcome measurement and validation of the technique in rheumatoid arthritis. The paradigm represents outcome by five separate dimensions: death, discomfort, disability, drug (therapeutic) toxicity, and dollar cost. Each dimension represents an outcome directly related to patient welfare. Quantitation of these outcome dimensions may be performed at interview…
Alternatives in Medical Record Formats
Access to information is the ultimate purpose of data storage systems. The medical record is a data storage and retrieval system. Its organization, however, has confounded the purpose of providing accessible data to the physician who must make the clinical decision. Traditional and proposed formats for manual medical information storage are surveyed for features which improve or impede the access-time to clinical data. Time studies demonstrating …
Gender and race differences in the correlation between body mass and education in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
STUDY OBJECTIVE--Differences in the correlation between body mass index and education across four gender and race groups were investigated while simultaneously accounting for occupation, income, marital status, and age. DESIGN--The study used analysis of covariance techniques to calculate average body mass and confidence intervals within education categories while simultaneously adjusting for the covariates: age, square of age, family income, mar…
Disability in occupations in a national sample
OBJECTIVES. We sought to develop lists of jobs whose members reported high and low levels of functional disability. METHODS. Samples of women (n = 6096) and men (n = 3653) were drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiological Follow-up. Disability was measured with a modified Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire. We analyzed women and men separately, and we calculated average disability indices within longest-…
The dimensions of health outcomes: A cross-validated examination of health status measurement
Two independently developed patient outcome measurement instruments were administered to forty-eight subjects with rheumatoid arthritis using a random cross-over design. The independent estimates of physical disability and pain are highly correlated. Each instrument displayed highly significant relationships with global health, providing evidence for convergent validity. The results demonstrate that health status is composed of at least three maj…
Correlations between education and arthritis in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
Regular Vigorous Physical Activity and Disability Development in Healthy Overweight and Normal-Weight Seniors: A 13-Year Study
Objectives. We examined the relationship of regular exercise and body weight to disability among healthy seniors. Methods. We assessed body mass index (BMI) and vigorous exercise yearly (1989–2002) in 805 participants aged 50 to 72 years at enrollment. We studied 4 groups: normal-weight active (BMI 2 ; exercise> 60 min/wk); normal-weight inactive (exercise≤ 60 min/wk); overweight active (BMI≥ 25 kg/m 2 ); and overweight inactive. Disability was m…
Can preventive gerontology be on the way
Can preventive gerontology be on the way? J F FriesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.10.1591 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Alternatives in Medical Record Formats
Access to information is the ultimate purpose of data storage systems. The medical record is a data storage and retrieval system. Its organization, however, has confounded the purpose of providing accessible data to the physician who must make the clinical decision. Traditional and proposed formats for manual medical information storage are surveyed for features which improve or impede the access-time to clinical data. Time studies demonstrating …
Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity
The average length of life has risen from 47 to 73 years in this century, but the maximum life span has not increased. Therefore, survival curves have assumed an ever more rectangular form. Eighty per cent of the years of life lost to nontraumatic, premature death have been eliminated, and most premature deaths are now due to the chronic diseases of the later years. Present data allow calculation of the ideal average life span, approximately 85 y…
Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis
A structure for representation of patient outcome is presented, together with a method for outcome measurement and validation of the technique in rheumatoid arthritis. The paradigm represents outcome by five separate dimensions: death, discomfort, disability, drug (therapeutic) toxicity, and dollar cost. Each dimension represents an outcome directly related to patient welfare. Quantitation of these outcome dimensions may be performed at interview…
The dimensions of health outcomes: A cross-validated examination of health status measurement
Two independently developed patient outcome measurement instruments were administered to forty-eight subjects with rheumatoid arthritis using a random cross-over design. The independent estimates of physical disability and pain are highly correlated. Each instrument displayed highly significant relationships with global health, providing evidence for convergent validity. The results demonstrate that health status is composed of at least three maj…
Changes in quality of life among persons with HIV infection
Gender and race differences in the correlation between body mass and education in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
STUDY OBJECTIVE--Differences in the correlation between body mass index and education across four gender and race groups were investigated while simultaneously accounting for occupation, income, marital status, and age. DESIGN--The study used analysis of covariance techniques to calculate average body mass and confidence intervals within education categories while simultaneously adjusting for the covariates: age, square of age, family income, mar…
Improvement in intergenerational health
Differences in health status between subjects, their parents, and their children were analyzed in 2206 subjects who had attended the University of Pennsylvania during the 1939 to 1940 school year. Subjects compared their overall health status at the average age of 70 with that of their same-sex parent at the same age and with that of their same-sex child at the approximate average age of 45, providing reasons for reported differences. Thus, healt…
Disability in occupations in a national sample
OBJECTIVES. We sought to develop lists of jobs whose members reported high and low levels of functional disability. METHODS. Samples of women (n = 6096) and men (n = 3653) were drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiological Follow-up. Disability was measured with a modified Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire. We analyzed women and men separately, and we calculated average disability indices within longest-…
Health Status Among Persons Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Community-Based Study
From the Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Standford University, Stanford, California
Tobit, fixed effects, and cohort analyses of the relationship between severity and duration of rheumatoid arthritis
Correlations between education and arthritis in the 1971-1975 NHANES I
Assessment of quality of life in early stage HIV-infected persons: Data from the Aids Time- Oriented Health Outcome Study (Athos)
Can preventive gerontology be on the way
Can preventive gerontology be on the way? J F FriesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.10.1591 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Aging, Health Risks, and Cumulative Disability
BACKGROUND: Persons with lower health risks tend to live longer than those with higher health risks, but there has been concern that greater longevity may bring with it greater disability. We performed a longitudinal study to determine whether persons with lower potentially modifiable health risks have more or less cumulative disability. METHODS: We studied 1741 university alumni who were surveyed first in 1962 (average age, 43 years) and then an…
Reducing the Need and Demand for Medical Services
Stanford University School of Medicine; Department of Medicine; 1000 Welch Road, Suite 203; Palo Alto, CA 94304-1808. Some portions of this editorial were adapted, with permission, from an article in Healthcare Forum Journal, 1993
Long-Term Randomized Controlled Trials of Tailored-Print and Small-Group Arthritis Self-Management Interventions
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of a mail-delivered, tailored self-management intervention (SMART) and to compare it with the classic Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP). METHODS: We performed 2 randomized controlled trials: 1) a study of 1090 participants randomized to SMART or USUAL CARE, and 2) a study of 341 participants randomized to SMART or ASMP. Dependent variables included disability, pain, depre…
The Compression of Morbidity
I n this century we are progressing through three separate eras with dramatically different characteristics of health and illness. We entered the century in an era of infectious disease, with tuberculosis the number one killer of our population, and smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, and other infectious illnesses extremely prevalent. A reduction in mortality from these diseases of over 99 percent Atherosclerosis and its complications, neoplasia, emp…
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): Progress of an NIH Roadmap Cooperative Group During its First Two Years
The NIH PROMIS network derived a consensus-based framework for self-reported health, systematically reviewed available instruments and datasets that address the initial PROMIS domains. Qualitative item research led to the first wave of network testing which began in the second year
Regular Vigorous Physical Activity and Disability Development in Healthy Overweight and Normal-Weight Seniors: A 13-Year Study
Objectives. We examined the relationship of regular exercise and body weight to disability among healthy seniors. Methods. We assessed body mass index (BMI) and vigorous exercise yearly (1989–2002) in 805 participants aged 50 to 72 years at enrollment. We studied 4 groups: normal-weight active (BMI 2 ; exercise> 60 min/wk); normal-weight inactive (exercise≤ 60 min/wk); overweight active (BMI≥ 25 kg/m 2 ); and overweight inactive. Disability was m…
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008
Validation of the PROMIS physical function measures in a diverse US population-based cohort of cancer patients
Medicine (21 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Physical therapy (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works)