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Geoffrey Kohn receives teaching honoraria from Ethicon. Dimitrios Stefanidis receives teaching honoraria from Gore, Ethicon, and Bard. Raymond Price, Steven DeMeester, Jörg Zehetner, Oliver Muensterer, Ziad Awad, Sumeet Mittal, William Richardson, and Robert Fanelli have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.

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Table 3 Medline search strategy, February 2011
Table 4 GRADE system for rating the quality of evidence for SAGES Guidelines

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This document was prepared and revised by the SAGES Guidelines Committee: Geoffrey P. Kohn, MBBS (Hons) MSurg; Raymond R. Price, MD (Co-Chariman); Steven R. Demeester, MD; Joerg Zehetner, MD; Oliver J. Muensterer, MD, PhD; Ziad T. Awad, MD; Sumeet K. Mittal, MD; William S. Richardson, MD (Chairman); Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD (Co-Chairman); Robert D. Fanelli, MD (Past Chairman); Robert A. Andrews, MD; Goffredo O. Arena, MD; Edward D. Auyang, MD; Simon Bergman, MD; Patrice R. Carter, MD; Ronald Hanson Clements, MD; Giovanni Dapri, MD; Elias Darido, MD; Teresa Catherine deBeche-Adams, MD; David Bryan Earle, MD; David S. Edelman, MD; Erika K. Fellinger, MD; Shannon A. Fraser, MD; Jeffrey A. Genaw, MD; Melanie Goldfarb, MD; Stephen P. Haggerty, MD; Celeste M. Hollands, MD; William Borden Hooks III, MD; William W. Hope, MD; Ifeoma Jacqueline Igboeli, MD; Lisa R. Martin Hawver, MD; Daniel T. McKenna, MD; Erica A. Moran, MD; David W. Overby, MD; Thomas P. Rauth, MD; Arthur Lee Rawlings, MD; Kurt E. Roberts, MD; Alexander Steven Rosemurgy, MD; John Scott Roth, MD; Alan A. Saber, MD; Shean Satgunam, MD; Tejinder Paul Singh, MD; Bala Gangadhara Reddy Thatigotla, MRCSEd; and Marc Zerey, MD. This document was reviewed and approved by the Board of Governors of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).

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Kohn, G.P., Price, R.R., DeMeester, S.R. et al. Guidelines for the management of hiatal hernia. Surg Endosc 27, 4409–4428 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-013-3173-3

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