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

All adult patients undergoing primary ventral/incisional hernia repair