Quality Control of Ventral Hernia Surgery by Prospective Registration

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Ventral Incisional Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: Hernia repair

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04624100

S62600

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

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

Trial design

5,000 participants in 1 patient group

All consecutive patients with primary ventral or incisional hernia

Treatment:

Procedure: Hernia repair