eTable. Quality of life according to EuraHS Quality of Life Score (e10) in the preoperative and postoperative course in our own patient population from Würzburg, Germany (2013–2016).

	Timing	Preoperative			1-year postoperative
Qol category	QoL criterion	N	Mean	[95% CI]	N	Mean	[95% CI]	p
Pain *1	at rest	336	1.36	[1.08; 1.64]	125	0,43	[0.18; 0.68]	0.0005
	during motion	336	2.35	[2.04; 2.67]	125	0,98	[0.59; 1.36]	0.0001
	last week’s most severe pain	336	2.71	[2.35; 3.07]	125	0,98	[0.58; 1.37]	<0.0001
Impairment *2	of activities at home	331	3.24	[2.89; 3.58]	122	1,07	[0.68; 1.45	<0.0001
	of activities outside the home	321	2.58	[2.25; 2.91]	120	0,87	[0.51; 1.24	<0.0001
	of sporting activities	163	2.10	[1.64; 2.56]	69*4	1,33	[0.75; 1.90	0.0693
	of hard physical work	295	3.67	[3.29; 4.04]	105	1,29	[0.80; 1.77	<0.0001
Cosmetic*3	Shape of abdomen	336	6.04	[5.80; 6.29]	114	4,96	[4.56; 5.35	<0.0001
	Shape of hernia	336	7.82	[7.61; 8.04]	124	3,74	[3.30; 4.18	<0.0001

*¹ Scale from 0–10: 0 = no pain to 10 = most severe pain

*² Scale from 1–10: 0 = no impairment to 10 = unable to perform the activity

*³ Scale from 1–10: 0 = very satisfied to 5 = satisfied to 10 = very unsatisfied

*⁴ Almost half of the patients did not engage in sporting activities, neither preoperatively nor at 1 year postoperatively.

EuraHS, Hernia Registry of the European Hernia Society; CI, confidence interval; N, number of patients; p, paired, two-sided t-test; QoL, quality of life