Quality Control of Ventral Hernia Surgery by Prospective Registration

Quality Control of Ventral Hernia Surgery in 21 Belgian Hospitals by Prospective Registration in Close Collaboration With the Danish Hernia Database.

Quality Control of ventral hernia surgery in 21 Belgian hospitals by prospective registration in close collaboration with the Danish Hernia Database.

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutively all patients with an elective or emergency repair of every ventral/incisional hernia (including parastomal hernia)
• Male and female
• 18 years or older
• Operated of supervised by a participating surgeon (participating in this study is not necessarily by a whole surgical department of one of the 18 participating Belgian hospitals, but by specific surgeons)
• Elective and emergency surgery
• Signed informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 18 years
• Not operated or supervised by participating surgeon
• Pregnant at inclusion in the registry
• No signed informed consent form