Literature Review

Recent open-source medical literature on hernias.

Link	Title	Source
	Groin Hernia Guidelines	British Hernia Society
	Commissioning Guide - Inguinal Hernia	British Hernia Society
	TA083 Laparoscopic surgery for hernia	NICE
	Treatment of Inguinal Hernia in Adult Patients	European Hernia Society
	Report - "Is access to Surgery a Postcode Lottery?"	Royal College of Surgeons
	Abdominal Hernia	Journal of the American Medical Association
	Treatment of chronic pain post inguinal hernia repair	Evidence-Based Practice Group
	Femoral Hernias	British Medical Journal
	Hernia Surgery is cost effective	British Medical Journal
	Inguinal Hernias	British Medical Journal
	Local or general Anesthesia for Open Hernia Repair	Annals of Surgery
	Management of Asymptomatic Inguinal Hernia	Journal of the American Medical Association
	Umbilical and epigastric hernia repair	Surgery Clinics of North America
	Groin Hernia - Patient Information  *	British Hernia Society
	Treatment of the 'Sportsman's groin'	British Medical Journal
	Laparoscopic versus Open-Repair	OA Minimally Invasive Surgery
	Unintended consequences of policy changes	Royal College of Surgeons
	Hernia Outcomes - Surgical experience counts	Hernia Outcomes Campaign Group

 - Recommended Resource for the layman.
*  - Refers to a truss as "limited benefit and fairly uncomfortable". While we agree with this statement, as the truss design is both difficult to fit and maintain in-situ, customers wearing our briefs would disagree with both benefit and comfort. This is an area we hope to clearly establish with empirical evidence.

Recent broadcast audio on Inguinal Hernia
 

.mp3 Link	Audio Title	Source
	NHS rationing of Hernia Operations	Radio 4 Inside Health