# RETRACTION: The Effect of Placing Drains and No Drains After Caesarean Section in Obese Patients on Patients' Post‐Operative Wound Complications: A Meta‐Analysis

PMC · DOI: 10.1111/iwj.70393 · 2025-03-21

## TL;DR

This retracted study claimed to analyze the impact of drains after C-sections in obese patients but was found to have used a compromised peer review process.

## Contribution

The paper was retracted due to a flawed peer review process and no valid new contribution was made.

## Key findings

- The article was retracted after an investigation revealed a compromised peer review.
- The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.
- No new evidence or conclusions were validly presented.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhengY.
, 
ZhaoF.
, 
NingF.
, and 
LiN.
, “The Effect of Placing Drains and No Drains After Caesarean Section in Obese Patients on Patients' Post‐Operative Wound Complications: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 2 (2024): e14576, 10.1111/iwj.14576.

The above article, published online on 01 February 2024, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.

## Full-text entities

- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC11928185