RETRACTION: Effects of Tourniquet on Surgical Site Wound Infection and Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

A paper claiming to analyze the effects of tourniquets in knee surgery was retracted due to a flawed peer review process.

Contribution

The paper's findings and conclusions are invalid due to a compromised peer review process.

Findings

The article was retracted after an investigation revealed a flawed peer review process.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

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

Abstract

RETRACTION:

LinZ.
,
ChenT.
,
ChenG.
,
PanW.
, and
XuW.
, “Effects of Tourniquet on Surgical Site Wound Infection and Pain after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 2 (2024): e14414, 10.1111/iwj.14414.PMC1082462237779328

The above article, published online on 01 October 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.