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  • Patient-centered care

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  • Over 350,000 ventral hernia repairs occur annually in the U.S.
  • Long-term quality of life post-hernia repair requires further investigation.
  • Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are vital for understanding patient experience and improving treatments.

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  • To explore patient experiences following ventral hernia repair.
  • To enhance an existing PRO tool for assessing patient outcomes.
  • To improve the quality of care and long-term results for hernia repair patients.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two rounds of semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
  • Enrolled 22 patients who underwent ventral hernia repair.
  • Analyzed patient perspectives to inform PRO tool development.

Main Results:

  • Identified ten major themes impacting patient quality of life.
  • Hernia repair and recurrence led to chronic pain and affected daily/social activities.
  • Lack of provider-patient communication and understanding necessitates better pre-operative information.

Conclusions:

  • PRO assessments and physician-patient communication enhance pre-operative benefit-risk understanding.
  • Improved communication can lead to better patient expectations regarding surgical recovery.
  • Addressing patient perspectives is key to optimizing ventral hernia repair outcomes.