ArticleWorld journal of surgery2014
Health-related quality of life scores changes significantly within the first three months after hernia mesh repair.
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- Does quality of life improve after complex incisional hernia repair? A systematic review.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Long-term patient-reported outcomes and quality of the evidence in ventral hernia mesh repair: a systematic review.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Quality of life following two different techniques of an open ventral hernia repair for large hernias: a prospective randomized study.BMC surgery · 2022Trial
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- Mesh fixation in open IPOM procedure with tackers or sutures? A randomized clinical trial with preliminary results.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2020Trial
- Turkish version of the Carolinas comfort scale: Validation and long-term clinical outcomes after mesh-based inguinal hernia repair.Turkish journal of surgery · 2026Article
- Peritoneal flap hernioplasty for complex ventral hernias: a prospective evaluation of patient-reported quality of life and short-term outcomes.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Observational
- Evaluation of medium to long-term patient satisfaction following open midline incisional hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
- Postoperative compression in preventing early complications after groin hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Observational
- Quality of Life After Umbilical Hernia Repair.Cureus · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient-related outcome measures (PROM) such as quality of life (QoL) after hernia repair are important to monitor, since QoL is an important indication of a hernia repair. Carolinas Comfort Scale (CCS) is a hernia-specific questionnaire regarding health-related QoL after a mesh hernia repair. The primary objective of this study was to monitor changes in health-related QoL over time after different mesh hernia repair procedures using the CCS.
methodsWe performed a prospective study with an exploratory, intraobserver design enrolling consecutive patients who were to undergo elective mesh hernia repair. Four different hernia repair techniques were included and analyzed specifically for each surgical group. Patients scored themselves using CCS preoperatively and at several fixed times postoperatively. Since no gold standard exists for either hernia-specific QoL questionnaires or change of scores on PROMs as a function of time after hernia repair, we compared the CCS scores with the visual analog scale (VAS) scores reflecting the subdomains of the CCS.
resultsA total of 166 patients completed the study. CCS scores for QoL, pain, sensation of mesh, and activity limitations changed significantly with time during the 90-day study period. Furthermore, CCS and VAS showed significant agreement and correlation (ρ = 0.52-0.82, P < 0.001).
conclusionsThe present study is the first to demonstrate significant changes over time in health-related QoL using the CCS after four different types of hernia repair with mesh.
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