RETRACTION: Association Between Malnutrition and Surgical Site Wound Infection Among Spinal Surgery Patients: A Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

This paper was retracted because it was accepted due to a compromised peer review process and does not present valid findings.

Contribution

The paper does not contribute new findings as it has been retracted due to ethical issues in the peer review process.

Findings

The article was accepted based on a compromised peer review process.

The retraction was agreed upon by the journal editor and publisher following an investigation.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

XieJ.
,
DuY.
,
TanZ.
, and
TangH.
, “Association Between Malnutrition and Surgical Site Wound Infection Among Spinal Surgery Patients: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 10 (2023): 4061–4068, 10.1111/iwj.14297.37391942
PMC10681542

The above article, published online on 30 June 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.