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Emily Breeding

General surgery resident and VA Quality Scholar Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center researching surgical outcomes, including ventral hernia repair.

Oct 28, 2026

3:09
What was your methodology?
3:12
So this is a retrospective study of about 31,000 patients.
3:17
And it's using the abdominal core quality collaborative.
3:20
And that's a large surgeon-based registry.
3:23
It's international where surgeons enter in information about their patients from the preoperative to the postoperative state.
3:29
And so working with this collaborative, we were able to look at several variables from patients through the preoperative phase to the postoperative phase.
3:38
So It's really great for some longitudinal data, which we don't have a lot of in surgical research in general, but especially in terms of recurrence for hernia.
6:46
Can we start there?
3:09
What was your methodology?
3:12
So this is a retrospective study of about 31,000 patients.
3:17
And it's using the abdominal core quality collaborative.
3:20
And that's a large surgeon-based registry.
3:23
It's international where surgeons enter in information about their patients from the preoperative to the postoperative state.
3:29
And so working with this collaborative, we were able to look at several variables from patients through the preoperative phase to the postoperative phase.
3:38
So It's really great for some longitudinal data, which we don't have a lot of in surgical research in general, but especially in terms of recurrence for hernia.
6:46
Can we start there?

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