Coping with chronic periprosthetic joint infection after failed revision of total knee and hip arthroplasty: a qualitative study on patient’s experiences in treatment and healing

• Vincent Tilo Krenn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vincent.krenn@charite.de

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Empowerment Research Institute GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1653-0597

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• Maria Sarah Bönigk,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

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• Andrej Trampuz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

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• Martin Liebisch,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria

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• Carsten Perka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

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• Sebastian Meller

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

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