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The International Hernia Collaboration (IHC) is currently a private vetted-membership Facebook⢠group of surgeons, healthcare providers, and industry representatives who are passionately interested in the repair of hernia and optimizing outcomes. The first 3 years have taught us clearly that by embracing closed Facebook⢠groups as collaborative forums designed to provide quality improvement, we can more effectively and transparently obtain immediate global feedback that will improve both patient outcomes and the quality of care that surgeons provide to their patients. Groups like this one will help disrupt and evolve the current standards being used today to provide ongoing healthcare education and quality improvement.
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Bresnahan, E.R., Huynh, D.T.K., Jacob, B. (2017). Social Media and Education in Hernia Repair. In: Hope, W., Cobb, W., Adrales, G. (eds) Textbook of Hernia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43045-4_48
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