Table 1.
Self-reported demographic and practice characteristics of 483 Canadian general surgeons who perform incisional hernia repairs
| Years in practice | |
| < 5 | 16% |
| 5–10 | 22% |
| 10–20 | 30% |
| > 20 | 32% |
| Practice setting | |
| Academic teaching hospital | 32% |
| Community hospital serving > 500,000 | 15% |
| Community hospital serving 100,000–500,000 | 25% |
| Community hospital serving < 100,000 | 28% |
| Fellowship trained | |
| Yes | 52% |
| No | 48% |
| Type of Fellowship | |
| Minimally invasive surgery | 23% |
| Trauma/ICU | 19% |
| Colorectal | 16% |
| Surgical oncology | 13% |
| Train general surgery residents | |
| Yes | 66% |
| No | 34% |
| Frequency of hernia repair | |
| Regularly | 73% |
| Infrequently | 23% |
| Only on call | 4% |