Survey Launch Announcement: Surgical Decision-Making for Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgery in Patients with Obesity

📢 Survey Launch Announcement

We are pleased to announce the launch of Survey 2 of 3 for our International Consensus-Seeking Initiative:

🩺 Surgical Decision-Making for Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgery in Patients with Obesity

This global effort—featuring 100+ leading surgeons from over 70 countries—aims to address variation in practice and the lack of standardized guidance for abdominal wall hernia surgery in patients with obesity. (Our next survey will focus on hiatal hernia surgery.)

💡 Why participate?

✅ Your responses will directly shape Delphi consensus statements and contribute to international guidelines.

✅ All respondents will be acknowledged as collaborative authors in the resulting publication.

🕒 Takes about 45 minutes to complete, featuring 98 real-world clinical scenarios.

🔗 Survey link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaovL7U885L1oJN0WML7cvK360YXTt_zfNAhjUFE1ERekSnQ/viewform?usp=dialog