Surgical Decision-Making and Umbilical Hernia Repair Outcomes

JAMA Surg. 2024 Dec 4:e244748. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4748. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Aymen H Sadaka^{1

2}, William J O'Brien³, Kamal M F Itani^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, Salt Lake City, Utah.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 39630445
PMCID: PMC11618625 (available on 2025-12-04)
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4748

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examines umbilical hernia repair outcomes with mesh vs suture technique in New England Veterans Affairs Hernia Registry data.