Drissi F, et al. - The purpose of this work was to examine the outpatient practice for groin hernia repair (GHR) in France and identify predictive factors of failure. With a poor failure rate, outpatient surgery for GHR benefitted more than 74% of the patients. The authors identified ASA grade ≥ III, bilateral GHR, emergency surgery for incarcerated hernia, spinal anesthesia and occurrence of an early post-operative complication as predictive factors of outpatient GHR failure. Here ambulatory failures were often associated with social issues or medical complications. Outpatient surgery criteria could become less restrictive in the future.