Regional variation and rising costs of groin hernia repairs in Australia: is there an urgent need for clinical consensus guidelines?

Hernia 2018; 22: 1 - 65. 11 Hansen DL, Fonnes S, Rosenberg J. Spin is present in the majority of articles evaluating robot-assisted groin hernia repair: a systematic review. There has been a slow but steady rise in Australia over the past 20 years in the proportion of groin hernias repaired using a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approach. [Extracted from the article]