Flemish Inguinal and Femoral Hernia Prospective Registry

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

About this trial

Prospective registry. The purpose of this clinical trial will be to measure surgical outcome parameters (e.g. recurrence, chronic pain and other quality indicators) after inguinal hernia repair using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the short- and long-term.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Consecutively all patients with a groin hernia (inguinal and/or femoral hernia) operated starting 01.01.2018.

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 a hospital, but by specific surgeons)

Disqualifiers

Younger than 18 years

Not operated or supervised by participating surgeon

Pregnant at inclusion in the registry

No signed informed consent form

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Surgical inguinal or femoral hernia repair

Treatment groups

560 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group