Funding for this research was provided by:
Södertälje Hospital´s SLL´s and Capio’s research and development funds.
Article History
Received: 28 April 2018
Accepted: 18 August 2018
First Online: 24 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: S. B. declares potential conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (he is a member of the advisory board of the International Hernia Mesh Registry). For the remaining authors, none declares conflict of interest.
: Approval of the study protocol was obtained 22 June 2016 by the Regional Ethics Review Board in Stockholm, Sweden (DNR 2016/1144-31/2). Only aggregated data were collected without any accesses to sensitive information.
: All procedures performed in the study 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. However, oral informed consent is obtained from all the participants for registration in the SHR.