Murphy, B. L.
Zhang, J.
Ubl, D. S.
Habermann, E. B.
Farley, D. R.
Paley, K.
Article History
Received: 21 June 2018
Accepted: 29 October 2018
First Online: 9 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Dr. Zhang is an employee of Medtronic and completed the analysis of the MedPAR database. We teamed with Medtronic to help perform the statistical analyses of the MedPAR 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 MedPAR 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.
: This study was reviewed by the Mayo Clinic IRB and found to be exempt as it involved de-identified data from national databases and they determined that it does not constitute research involving human subjects as defined under 45 CFR 46.102.
: This article does not contain any studies directly involving human participants, as it is a review of data already collected in a database.
: For this type of study, formal consent was not necessary.