* Volume data is for calendar year 2022
Another busy year at Boston Hernia! In just her first full year here, Dr. Fullington surpassed Dr. Reinhorn in number of hernia repairs performed. Both surgeons continued to have excellent surgical outcomes as demonstrated below. They remain dedicated to quality improvement and authored multiple papers, book chapters, and gave various talks on quality in hernia surgery in 2022.
One of the highlights of our year is that we finally published a peer reviewed paper after years of hard work collecting and analyzing our own surgical data. This paper suggests that an open preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair, in skilled hands, provides better and faster recovery than laparoscopic or robotic inguinal hernia repairs.
Office Volume Data:
# of new patient consults: 1766
Total # of office visit: 2594
Surgical Volume Data:
Total # of hernias repaired: 959
Dr Fullington # of hernias repaired: 496
Dr. Reinhorn # of hernias repaired: 463
Dr. Fullington & Dr. Reinhorn Quality Data
Peer Reviewed Publications in 2022:
A pragmatic, evidence-based approach to coding for abdominal wall reconstruction Hernia 2022
International volunteer Projects:
Research Collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons England led Humanitarian Surgery initiative. – Developed text and written exam on non mesh inguinal hernia repair for research as to the impact on using technology to increasing surgical capacity in LMIC.
Ongoing research and authorship projects:
Invited authorship of book chapters on inguinal hernia repair in:
Fisher’s Mastery of Surgery
Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Surgical Clinics of North America
Rosen’s Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Past Years’ Quality Reports: