Scholars@Duke
Rohit Vikram Tejwani

Rohit Vikram Tejwani

Assistant Professor of Urology
Urology
rohit.tejwani@duke.edu
40 Duke Medicine Cir, Durham, NC 27710
40 Duke Medicine Cir, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Financial toxicity among individuals with spina bifida and their families: A qualitative study and conceptual model.

Journal Article J Pediatr Urol · June 2022 INTRODUCTION: Spina bifida is the most common permanently disabling birth defect in the United States and requires lifelong, multi-specialty care. The cost of such care has the potential to result in financial toxicity - the 'objective financial burden' an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hospital and ED charges for spina bifida care in the United States between 2006 and 2014: Over $2 billion annually.

Journal Article Disabil Health J · July 2019 BACKGROUND: More children with spina bifida (SB) are surviving into adulthood. Unfortunately, little data exist regarding the economic implications of modern SB care. OBJECTIVE: We examined economic data from two national databases to estimate the annual n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Early Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Delivery of Children's Surgical Care.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · April 2019 The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on children's access to surgical care is not well-defined. Our objective was to describe the early impact of PPACA on children's surgical care before and after Medicaid expansion in 2014. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Contemporary Demographic, Treatment, and Geographic Distribution Patterns for Disorders of Sex Development.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · March 2018 This study aimed to describe the demographic characteristics, hospital utilizations, patterns of inpatient surgical management, and the overall state/regional variation in surgery rate among patients with disorders of sex development (DSD). We analyzed the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Crowdsourcing utility estimation for spina bifida in the general population.

Journal Article J Pediatr Rehabil Med · December 11, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Cost-utility analyses (CUA) are useful when the treatment conditions depend on patient preferences that are in turn dependent on health state utility value. Spina bifida (SB) is an example of such a preference-sensitive condition. Historicall ... Full text Link to item Cite

Readmissions, unplanned emergency room visits, and surgical retreatment rates after anti-reflux procedures.

Journal Article J Pediatr Urol · October 2017 INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: The choice between endoscopic injection (EI) and ureteroneocystotomy (UNC) for surgical correction of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is controversial. OBJECTIVE: To compare postoperative outcomes of EI vs UNC. STUDY DESIGN: This study ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open versus minimally invasive surgical approaches in pediatric urology: Trends in utilization and complications.

Journal Article J Pediatr Urol · June 2017 OBJECTIVE: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques are anecdotally reported to be increasingly used, but little objective data supports this. Our objective was to assess trends in MIS utilization across various procedures in pediatric urology and to co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Utility Estimation for Pediatric Vesicoureteral Reflux: Methodological Considerations Using an Online Survey Platform.

Journal Article J Urol · March 2017 PURPOSE: The advent of online task distribution has opened a new avenue for efficiently gathering community perspectives needed for utility estimation. Methodological consensus for estimating pediatric utilities is lacking, with disagreement over whom to s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Increased pediatric sub-specialization is associated with decreased surgical complication rates for inpatient pediatric urology procedures.

Journal Article J Pediatr Urol · December 2016 INTRODUCTION: Increased case volumes and training are associated with better surgical outcomes. However, the impact of pediatric urology sub-specialization on perioperative complication rates is unknown. OBJECTIVES: To determine the presence and magnitude ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open versus minimally invasive ureteroneocystostomy: A population-level analysis.

Journal Article J Pediatr Urol · August 2016 INTRODUCTION: Open ureteroneocystostomy (UNC) is the gold standard for surgical correction of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Beyond single-center reports, there are few published data on outcomes of minimally-invasive (MIS) UNC. Our objective was to compare ... Full text Link to item Cite

Is the Economic Impact and Utilization of Imaging Studies for Pediatric Urolithiasis Across the United States Increasing?

Journal Article Urology · August 2016 OBJECTIVE: To identify longitudinal trends of economic impact and resource utilization for management of pediatric urolithiasis using national databases. METHODS: We analyzed the 2006-2012 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample and Nationwide Inpatient Sam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Outcomes of Shock Wave Lithotripsy and Ureteroscopy for Treatment of Pediatric Urolithiasis.

Journal Article J Urol · July 2016 PURPOSE: Shock wave lithotripsy has been commonly used to treat children with renal and ureteral calculi but recently ureteroscopy has been used more frequently. We examined postoperative outcomes from these 2 modalities in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hospital Surgical Volume and Associated Postoperative Complications of Pediatric Urological Surgery in the United States.

Journal Article J Urol · August 2015 PURPOSE: Hospital and provider surgical volume have been increasingly linked to surgical outcomes. However, this topic has rarely been addressed in children. We investigated whether hospital surgical volume impacts complication rates in pediatric urology. ... Full text Link to item Cite