Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title Altmetric
2022 Primary care visits and ambulatory care sensitive diabetes hospitalizations among adult Alabama Medicaid beneficiaries.  Primary Care Diabetes.  16:116-121. 2022
2022 What do Veterans with homeless experience want us to know that we are not asking? A qualitative content analysis of comments from a national survey of healthcare experience.  Health and Social Care in the Community.  2022
2021 Low Uptake of Secure Messaging Among Veterans With Experiences of Homelessness and Substance Use Disorders.  Journal of Addiction Medicine.  15:508-511. 2021
2021 Characteristics Associated With Unsheltered Status Among Veterans.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  61:357-368. 2021
2021 Comparison of patient experience between primary care settings tailored for homeless clientele and mainstream care settings.  Medical Care.  59:495-503. 2021
2021 Designing a Strategy Trial for the Management of Gout: The Use of a Modified Delphi Panel.  Acr Open Rheumatology.  3:341-348. 2021
2021 Social support and diabetes distress among adults with type 2 diabetes covered by Alabama Medicaid.  Diabetic Medicine.  38. 2021
2021 Insomnia severity and depressive symptoms in people living with HIV and chronic pain: associations with opioid use.  AIDS Care: psychological and socio-medical aspects of AIDS-HIV.  2021
2020 Trial design for ineffectiveness research: A mixed-methods survey.  BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.  25:159-163. 2020
2020 Exploring Quality of Primary Care for Patients Who Experience Homelessness and the Clinicians Who Serve Them: What Are Their Aspirations?.  Qualitative Health Research.  30:865-879. 2020
2020 Prevalence of and Risk Factors Associated With Nonfatal Overdose Among Veterans Who Have Experienced Homelessness.  JAMA Network Open.  3:e201190. 2020
2020 Surgeons' Views on Shared Decision-Making..  Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews.  7:8-18. 2020
2019 Medicaid Expansion and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions among Nonelderly Adults with Diabetes.  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.  42:312-320. 2019
2019 Perspectives on conversations about costs of cancer care of breast cancer survivors and cancer center staff: A qualitative study.  Annals of Internal Medicine.  170:S54-S61. 2019
2018 Role of patient- and surgery-specific risk in receipt of outpatient preoperative testing.  Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management.  10:18-26. 2018
2017 Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey.  Journal of General Internal Medicine.  32:732-738. 2017
2017 Effect of Prescription Drug Coupons on Statin Utilization and Expenditures: A Retrospective Cohort Study.  Pharmacotherapy.  37:12-24. 2017
2017 Surgeons' views on preoperative medical evaluation: a qualitative study..  Perioperative Medicine.  6:16. 2017
2017 The Language of Stewardship: Is the “Low-Value” Label Overused?.  Mayo Clinic Proceedings.  92:11-14. 2017
2016 Navigating ethical tensions in high-value care education.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association.  316:2189-2190. 2016
2016 What is the rationale for preoperative medical evaluations? A closer look at surgical risk and common terminology.  British Journal of Anaesthesia.  117:681-684. 2016
2016 In reply.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association.  315:2734-2735. 2016
2016 Prevalence and cost of office visits prior to colonoscopy for colon cancer screening.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association.  315:514-515. 2016
2015 Cost Containment and Patient Well-Being.  Journal of General Internal Medicine.  30:701-702. 2015
2015 Ethics in the use of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adults.  Resuscitation.  91:73-75. 2015
2015 Impact of Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps on Financial Burden of those with Group Health Insurance.  Journal of General Internal Medicine.  30:683-688. 2015
2015 Why is there no generic insulin? historical origins of a modern problem.  New England Journal of Medicine.  372:1171-1175. 2015
2015 In reply.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association.  313:728-729. 2015
2015 The Role of Professional Societies in Limiting Indication Creep.  Journal of General Internal Medicine.  30:249-252. 2015
2015 Comparing employer-sponsored and federal exchange plans: Wide variations in cost sharing for prescription drugs.  Health Affairs.  34:467-476. 2015
2015 The health care 'iron triangle'.  Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.  82:334. 2015
2014 Providing price displays for physicians which price is right?.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association.  312:1631-1632. 2014
2014 Physicians' dual agency, stewardship, and marginally beneficial care.  The American Journal of Bioethics.  14:49-51. 2014
2014 Overcoming barriers to discussing out-of-pocket costs with patients.  JAMA Internal Medicine.  174:849-850. 2014
2014 Physicians' Dual Agency, Stewardship, and Marginally Beneficial Care.  The American Journal of Bioethics.  14:49-51. 2014
2012 Relationship Between Time of First Publication and Subsequent Publication Success Among Non-PhD Physician-Scientists..  Journal of graduate medical education.  4:196-201. 2012
2011 Discordant thymectomy in identical twins concordant for myasthenia gravis.  Annals of Internal Medicine.  155:478-479. 2011
2007 Advances in the subcritical, gas-cooled, fast transmutation reactor concept.  Nuclear Technology.  159:72-105. 2007

Education And Training

  • Duke University School of Medicine, Residency
  • Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Medicine, Duke University 2010
  • Master of Public Health in Health / Health Care Administration / Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
  • Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Nuclear Radiology Residency Program, Georgia Institute of Technology 2006

    • Awards And Honors

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  • Kevin Riggs

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