Hughes abdominal closure versus standard mass closure to reduce incisional hernias following surgery for colorectal cancer: the HART RCT

O’Connell, Susan; Islam, Saiful; Sewell, Bernadette; Farr, Angela; Knight, Laura; Bashir, Nadim; Harries, Rhiannon; Jones, Sian; Cleves, Andrew; Fegan, Greg; Watkins, Alan; Torkington, Jared

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This trial showed the Hughes abdominal closure did not significantly reduce the incidence of incisional hernias at 1 year compared with standard mass closure in colorectal cancer patients.

Susan O’Connell , Saiful Islam , Bernadette Sewell , Angela Farr , Laura Knight , Nadim Bashir , Rhiannon Harries , Sian Jones, Andrew Cleves , Greg Fegan , Alan Watkins & Jared Torkington .

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Susan O’Connell ¹, Saiful Islam ², Bernadette Sewell ³, Angela Farr ³, Laura Knight ¹, Nadim Bashir ², Rhiannon Harries ⁴, Sian Jones ⁵, Andrew Cleves ¹, Greg Fegan ², Alan Watkins ², Jared Torkington ^6,^*

¹ Cedar Healthcare Technology Research Centre, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK
² Swansea Trials Unit, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
³ Swansea Centre for Health Economics, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
⁴ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, UK
⁵ Public and patient involvement, , UK
⁶ Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: Jared.Torkington@wales.nhs.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: Alan Watkins reports membership of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research Funding Committee (2018–present). Alan Watkins also served as a member of the NIHR’s College of Experts in 2020.

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