# RETRACTION: Diabetic Foot Wound Ulcers Management by Vacuum Sealing Drainage: A Meta‐Analysis

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed vacuum sealing drainage improves diabetic foot wound ulcers, but was retracted due to a compromised peer review.

## Contribution

The paper's findings and conclusions are invalidated due to a flawed peer review process.

## Key findings

- The paper was retracted because it was accepted based on a compromised peer review.
- The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.
- The study's conclusions about vacuum sealing drainage are no longer considered valid.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

YangL.
,
ZhaoN.
,
YangM.
,
HuangJ.
,
FuX.
,
LeiC.
, and
CaiP.
, “Diabetic Foot Wound Ulcers Management by Vacuum Sealing Drainage: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 1 (2024): e14390, 10.1111/iwj.14390.37704593
PMC10788591

The above article, published online on 13 September 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.