Article History
Received: 5 May 2020
Accepted: 22 September 2020
First Online: 30 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work: they were given honorarium for TIPP pilot centers (JFG, JMC, MS) and expert honorarium (JFG), but no financial support from industry was provided for this article.The Hernia-Club is an independent scientific institution whose objective is to assess the results of different techniques and medical devices for hernia repair. It therefore has relationships with many companies having an interest in independent evaluation of their products.
: The patients are informed that their de-identified data are registered and that they will be offered a phone questionnaire at different steps of their follow-up. Only the operating surgeon and the clinical research assistant are able to link the randomly allocated identifying number and the patient. The data are stored in a specialized Swiss data bank where they are protected against network intrusion. The registry complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the French “Méthodologies de référence de la Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberté” (MR001, MR003) and the different specific French ethics committees.
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