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Hernia surgery, although being the treatment of the common, has to manage a huge variability. Variability and low generalizability have shown to be major challenges to RCTs. Registries have proven at the same time to be a helpful tool in the pursue of better results. The following chapter presents some of the advantages of hernia databases and a rationale for the need of different kinds of databases and discusses their limitations. It becomes clear that whereas quality control is a convincing tale narrative—believed and promoted feverously in our days—the main purpose of databases should be the improvement of patients’ treatment by transparency of results.
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Dietz, U.A., Menzel, S., Wiegering, A. (2018). Management of Database in Hernia Surgery. In: Campanelli, G. (eds) The Art of Hernia Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72626-7_9
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