Dr. Sally Kathleen Rigler M.D., M.P.H.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
Kansas Univ Medical Ctr Div Gen Ger Medicine 3901 Rainbow Blvd. Kansas City KS, 66160About
Dr. Sally Rigler practices Geriatric Medicine in Kansas City, KS. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Rigler works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preventing falls in older adults.
- Management of poststroke depression in older people.
- Alcoholism in the elderly.
- Weight outcomes among antidepressant users in nursing facilities.
- The impact of self-reported cumulative comorbidity on stroke recovery.
- Psychotropic medication use among Kansas Medicaid youths with disabilities.
- Penny wise, pound wise: a comparison of Medicaid expenditures for home and community-based services versus nursing facility care for older adults.
- Comparison of the association between disease burden and inappropriate medication use across three cohorts of older adults.
- Differing patterns of antiresorptive pharmacotherapy in nursing facility residents and community dwellers.
- Identification and management of depression in nursing facility residents.
- Predictors of the selection of coxibs over nonselective NSAIDs in an older Medicaid cohort.
- Predictors of long-acting opioid use and oral versus transdermal route among older Medicaid beneficiaries.
- Medicaid's expenditures for newer pharmacotherapies for adults with disabilities.
- Comparing methods to identify hip fracture in a nursing home population using Medicare claims.
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