Volume 157, Issue 6, Pages 1157-1165 (June 2015) Extending the value of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program claims dataset to study long-term outcomes: Rate of repeat ventral hernia repair Anne M. Stey, MD, MSc, Marcia M. Russell, MD, FACS, Catherine A. Sugar, PhD, Bruce L. Hall, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS, David S. Zingmond, MD, PhD, Elise H. Lawson, MD, MSHS, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS Surgery Volume 157, Issue 6, Pages 1157-1165 (June 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.12.027 Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig Kaplan-Meier curve displaying the probability of repeat repair of ventral hernia over time. +Censored observations included patients who died or who had not undergone repair of the ventral hernia by the end of the study period (2005–2008). Surgery 2015 157, 1157-1165DOI: (10.1016/j.surg.2014.12.027) Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions