RETRACTION: Surgical Site Wound Infection and Wound Pain after Video‐Assisted Thoracoscopy in Patients With Lung Cancer: A Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed to analyze wound infection and pain after a lung cancer surgery, but it was accepted due to a flawed peer review process.

Contribution

The paper was retracted due to a compromised peer review process and does not contribute new findings.

Findings

The article was retracted after an investigation found the peer review process was compromised.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

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

Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhouJ.
,
RenZ.
,
GaoX.
, and
ZhouX.
, “Surgical Site Wound Infection and Wound Pain after Video‐Assisted Thoracoscopy in Patients with Lung Cancer: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 9 (2023): 3898–3905, 10.1111/iwj.14237.37293742
PMC10588326

The above article, published online on 09 June 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.