Terri Fried

About

Dr. Terri Fried is the Humana Foundation Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and serves as the Section Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She completed her medical education at Harvard University and underwent internship and residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. Her fellowship training in geriatrics, ethics, and clinical effectiveness was also conducted at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fried joined Yale's geriatrics section in 1996 as a clinician investigator after several years as a clinician-educator at Brown Medical School. Her research interests focus on decision-making for older persons with advanced illness and multiple conditions, with a particular emphasis on elucidating patient preferences. She has contributed significantly to understanding advance care planning, healthcare utilization among dementia caregivers, treatment burden in older adults with multiple chronic conditions, and care transitions for persons with dementia. Dr. Fried's work involves developing decision support tools, exploring patient and caregiver needs, and improving healthcare delivery for the elderly population. She is actively involved in multiple research collaborations and has a substantial publication record in her field.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Psychiatry
• Data Mining
• Nursing
• Computer Science
• Internal medicine
• Data science
• Psychology
• Gerontology

Selected publications

• Cognitively Impaired Older Persons' and Caregivers' Perspectives on Dementia‐Specific Advance Care Planning

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 47 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Advance care planning (ACP) traditionally involves asking individuals about their treatment preferences during a brief period of incapacity near the end of life. Because dementia leads to prolonged incapacity, with many decisions arising before a terminal event, it has been suggested that dementia-specific ACP is necessary. We sought to elicit the perspectives of older adults with early cognitive impairment and their caregivers on traditional and dementia-specific ACP. DES…

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• Communication as a key component of deprescribing: Conceptual framework and review of the literature

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024-12-11 · 12 citations

  reviewOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Deprescribing, the process of identifying and discontinuing potentially harmful or unnecessary medications, is a key component of caring for older persons. Communication is central to deprescribing. This study's objectives were to create a conceptual framework for deprescribing communication and to apply the framework to evaluate current and potential uses of communication in deprescribing. METHODS: The consensus development working group comprises an international set of 14 experts…

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• Development of REDCap-based architecture for a clinical decision support tool linked to the electronic health record for assessment of medication appropriateness

  JAMIA Open · 2023 · 12 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Objective: To develop the architecture for a clinical decision support system (CDSS) linked to the electronic health record (EHR) using the tools provided by Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to assess medication appropriateness in older adults with polypharmacy. Materials and Methods: The tools available in REDCap were used to create the architecture for replicating a previously developed stand-alone system while overcoming its limitations. Results: The architecture consists of data inp…

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• Association Between Cognitive Trajectories and Subsequent Health Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: Findings From a Nationally Representative Study

  The Journals of Gerontology Series A · 2024-06-07 · 10 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Cognitive decline may be an early indicator of major health issues in older adults, though research using population-based data is lacking. Researchers objective was to assess the relationships between distinct cognitive trajectories and subsequent health outcomes, including health status, depressive symptoms, and mortality, using a nationally representative cohort. METHODS: Data were drawn from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Global cognition was assessed annually betwee…

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• Variation in Specialist Palliative Care Reach and Associated Factors Among People With Advanced Heart Failure in the Department of Veterans Affairs

  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · 2024-03-30 · 9 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant I01HX000906

  NIH · 2016

• NIH Grant K02AG020113

  NIH · $524k · 2007

• Yale Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-related Research

  NIH · $7.5M · 2001–2031

Frequent coauthors

• John R. O’Leary

  144 shared

• Linda S. Williams

  Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

  91 shared

• John Concato

  United States Food and Drug Administration

  91 shared

• Dawn M. Bravata

  Quality Enhancement Research Initiative

  91 shared

• Joseph V. Agostini

  Hôpital Jean Jaurès

  90 shared

• Lawrence Brass

  Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne

  89 shared

• Albert Lo

  Eli Lilly (United States)

  87 shared

• Vincent McClain

  Regenstrief Institute

  86 shared

Education

• M.D.

  Harvard

• Other, Primary Care Internal Medicine

  Rhode Island Hospital

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