Do female patients experience worse outcomes than male patients after inguinal hernia repair? An analysis of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative database
This study demonstrates that quality of life and hernia recurrence are strikingly worse for female patients, despite a greater prevalence of minimally invasive repairs. Identification of these disparities in outcomes is the first step toward achieving health equity in inguinal hernia repair.
Authors
- Sami Tannouri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6924-3257)
- S. Saravana Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7057-0097)
- Martina Rama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8070-773X)
- Li‐Ching Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-7097)
- Talar Tatarian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-3659)
- Amrita Iyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9596-0432)
- Francesco Palazzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5614-0884)
- Sourav Podder
Institutions
- Twitter (United States) (US)
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Surgery
- Published
- 2025-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2025.109491
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Hernia repair and management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.01