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"This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Tanner, J., & Padley, W. (in press). "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12160

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 p... Read More about "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections.

Surgical site infection: poor compliance with guidelines and care bundles (2014)
Journal Article
Leaper, D. J., Tanner, J., Kiernan, M., Assadian, O., & Edmiston, C. E. (2015). Surgical site infection: poor compliance with guidelines and care bundles. International Wound Journal, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.12243

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are probably the most preventable of the health care- associated infections. Despite the widespread international introduction of level I evidence-based guidelines for the prevention of SSIs, such as that of the Nation... Read More about Surgical site infection: poor compliance with guidelines and care bundles.