title: Postoperative wound infection: Critique III.
abstract: There can be few single-centre studies that have a sample population of nearly 63 000 and few investigators who have the resilience to continue collecting data for 10 years. For these reasons alone, this work by Cruse and Foord1 demands attention; it has had considerable influence on our examination of the risk factors associated with surgical wound infections, and the way in which we have taught students about the aetiology of such infections.
authors.affiliation: Lecturer in nursing studies, King's College, London.
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authors.lastname: Gilchrist