Washington—In the United States, although it is widely agreed that there needs to be a way to evaluate quality in hernia repair, relatively few outcomes have been established as quality measures.
At the 2016 annual meeting of the Americas Hernia Society (AHS), Filip Muysoms, MD, head of abdominal surgery at Maria Middelares Gent in Belgium, discussed the European Hernia Society’s (EHS’s) experience identifying and evaluating quality measures.
“One of the