A Personalized Evolution in Hernia Care

The seminal article by Luijendijk et al from 2000 on hernia repair noted a 3-year cumulative recurrence rate following hernia repair of 46% without mesh and 23% with mesh. The Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC; formerly the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative), born in 2012 in hopes of providing deeper insight into the true long-term outcomes, collects prospective data from surgeons across a variety of variables and is beginning to bear fruit of the labor of surgeons whose interest in hernia repair reaches far enough to participate in data collection. The collaborative uniquely uses patient-reported outcomes to assist long-term follow-up. These patients are treated by hernia surgeons and are not “all comers.”
Source: JAMA Surgery - Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research