Murphy, B. L.
Ubl, D. S.
Zhang, J.
Habermann, E. B.
Farley, D.
Paley, K.
Article History
Received: 29 October 2017
Accepted: 22 January 2018
First Online: 6 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: BM declares no conflict of interest DU declares no conflict of interest. JZ declares no conflict of interest. EH declares no conflict of interest. DF declares no conflict of interest. KP declares no conflict of interest.
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Dr. Zhang is an employee of Medtronic and completed the analysis of the Premier database. We teamed with Medtronic to help perform the statistical analyses of the Premier database due to their expertise in analyzing this extensive data source. Medtronic shared in our goals of identifying the current state of hernia repairs in the United States as a whole and offered to partner with us for this study. Dr. Zhang performed the statistical analysis of the Premier data, which was critically evaluated and discussed among all authors. All authors were involved in data interpretation. Our agreement with Medtronic precluded financial considerations for this project.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: For this type of study formal consent is not required.