RETRACTION: A Meta‐Analysis Comparing the Effects of Cemented and Uncemented Prostheses on Wound Infection and Pain in Patients With Femoral Neck Fractures

TL;DR

This retraction notice explains that a paper comparing cemented and uncemented prostheses was retracted due to a flawed peer review process.

Contribution

The paper's findings are invalidated 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The article was retracted after an investigation revealed a flawed peer review process.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:
XuZ.
,
ZhangK.
,
ChengK.
,
SunG.
,
ZhangY.
, and
JiaJ.
, “A Meta‐Analysis Comparing the Effects of Cemented and Uncemented Prostheses on Wound Infection and Pain in Patients With Femoral Neck Fractures,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 10 (2023): 4122–4129, 10.1111/iwj.14306.37555547
PMC10681411

The above article, published online on 09 August 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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