Fig 1.
Schedule of enrollment, interventions, and assessments.
*Enrollment occurs when surgery is scheduled. If enrollment is >3 months before surgery, a repeat baseline is performed <10 weeks before surgery. **Allocation occurs the day of surgery after the measurement of the participant’s hernia width (i.e. inter-rectus distance).
Table 1.
Subject inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Table 2.
Stopping criteria based on observation of adverse events per treatment arm.
Table 3.
Primary and secondary variables of interest.