"This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections

In this article we explore the experience of suffering from a surgical site infection, a common complication of surgery affecting around 5 per cent of surgical patients, via an interview study of 17 patients in the Midlands in the UK. Despite their prevalence, the experience of surgical site infecti...

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Main Authors: Brown, Brian, Tanner, Judith, Padley, Wendy
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50776/