RETRACTION: Effects of evidence‐based nursing in preventing pressure ulcers in intensive care unit patients: A meta‐analysis

TL;DR

This retracted paper claimed evidence-based nursing reduces pressure ulcers in ICU patients, but it was found to have manipulated the peer review process.

Contribution

The paper originally presented a meta-analysis on pressure ulcer prevention in ICU patients using evidence-based nursing.

Findings

The paper was retracted due to manipulation of the peer review and publishing process.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

Abstract

Retraction:

LiY.
,
HuangZ.
,
YuK.
, and
LiY.
, “Effects of evidence‐based nursing in preventing pressure ulcers in intensive care unit patients: A meta‐analysis,” Int Wound J
21, no. 3 (2023): e14489, https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14489.37973556
PMC10898412

The above article, published online on 16 November 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. It came to the publisher's attention from a third party that a number of articles shared concerning similarities in format and structure. Following an investigation by the publisher, the retraction of this article has been agreed on because the peer review and publishing process for this article were found to have been manipulated. The authors did not respond to our notice of retraction.