Purpose Wide variation in care and costs exists regarding the management of abdominal
wall hernias, with unproven benefit for many therapies. This work establishes a specialty …

Introduction There is a need for hernia centers and specialist hernia surgeons because of
the increasing complexity of hernia surgery procedures due to new techniques, more difficult …

BACKGROUND: From the legacy of Shukri Khuri, we have successfully implemented a
regional quality collaborative in Michigan, the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative …

Introduction Abdominal wall herniation (AWH) is an increasing problem for patients,
surgeons, and healthcare providers. Surgical-site specific outcomes, such as infection …

BACKGROUND: Success of a surgical intervention is often measured by hard clinical
outcomes. In ventral hernia repair (VHR) these include wound morbidity and hernia …

To date, the scientific definition “hernia center” does not exist and this term is being used by
hospitals and private institutions as a marketing instrument. Hernia surgery has become …

Background There is an increasing interest in patient-reported outcome measurement to
evaluate hernia operations. Several hernia-specific quality of life (QoL) scales have been …

BACKGROUND: Data used for evaluating quality of medical care need to be of high
reliability to ensure valid quality assessment and benchmarking. The American College of …

Objective: In this article, we detail a unique collaboration between hospitals in Michigan and
a major third party payer, using a “pay for participation model.” The payer has made a …

Purpose To estimate the annual volume and cost of ventral hernia repair (VHR) performed in
the United States. Methods A retrospective cohort study was performed using the National …