**Author details**

Florina Popa

The concept is designed to help organizations deliver a consistent, safe, and high-quality approach to care—that is, an approach that reduces the risk of error and improves outcomes

**1.** integrated, coordinated, patient-centered care—starting with the hernia consultation and

**2.** comprehensive education of, and shared decision making with occurring along the continuum of care from hernia consultation to care of the patient (preoperative, intraoperative,

**3.** consistent communication and collaboration with all health-care providers involved in the patient's care and transitions of care—including providers on the interdisciplinary team (as well as those who are not on the team) from the hernia consultation through the follow-

**4.** ongoing quality improvement processes—involving the implementation of improvements

The surgeon's role is to continue to be the patient's "provider of choice" in hernia treatment and be a global leader in hernia education and research. To align the objectives of clinicians, patients, and providers, "a greater emphasis on value is key, and achieving high-value care for patients must become the goal of health-care delivery, thereby reducing costs" [13].

Successful change must be locally driven by local leaders, supported by global partners through true accompaniment, global collaboration, and an emphasis on systems, not silos.

There is work being undertaken to have work-based assessments and a curriculum to offi-

I conclude by discussing hernia surgery and hernia centers as a global health priority and

God bless all my family members who have shown so much of faith in me throughout my

and postoperative) to discharge to follow-up visit with the hernia surgeon;

to the program from the hernia consultation to the hernia follow-up visit.

cially recognize the benefits and learning opportunities of work abroad.

and customer satisfaction—by providing the following:

Only in this way will we be able to do some action.

possible solutions to improving surgical care globally.

up visit with the surgeon;

20 Hernia Surgery and Recent Developments

**Conflict of interest**

No conflict of interest.

challenging situation in life.

**Notes/thanks/other declarations**

continuing through the hernia surgeon follow-up visit;

Address all correspondence to: florinapopa11@yahoo.com

Department of Surgery, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
