Extended literature review:

This paper reviews literature in the area relating to podiatric surgery and patient satisfaction. Reasoning behind this research is to gauge patient satisfaction with podiatric surgery and to assess both positive and negatives aspects of the surgical process, which included pre, intra and post operative phases. Research papers were searched for manually through journals and electronically via research engines. They were then examined and critiqued using a standardized critiquing method. There is a lack of research in this area nevertheless the research that has taken place has shown patient satisfaction to be high.