# RETRACTION: Impact of Negative Pressure Wound Drainage Compared With Natural Wound Drainage after Thyroid Tumour Surgery: A Meta‐Analysis

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed to compare wound drainage methods after thyroid surgery but was found to have used a compromised peer review process and significant overlap with another study.

## Contribution

The paper's original contribution was a meta-analysis comparing negative pressure and natural wound drainage after thyroid surgery, but it was retracted due to ethical issues.

## Key findings

- The paper was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
- Significant textual overlap was found with another article by different authors.
- The authors disagree with the retraction decision.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

ImamM. S.
,
Abdel‐SattarR. M.
,
AlamriA. S.
,
AlqurashiA. M.
,
AlnefaieA. M. A.
, and
AbdelrahimM. E. A.
, “Impact of Negative Pressure Wound Drainage Compared With Natural Wound Drainage after Thyroid Tumour Surgery: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
20, no. 4 (2023): 1183–1190, 10.1111/iwj.13977.36251756
PMC10031204

The above article, published online on 17 October 2022, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, the investigation found significant textual overlap between this article and another article by different authors [1]. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction.

Reference

[1]
LiL.
,
LiuW.
,
TaoH.
,
ChenH.
,
LiW.
,
HuangT.
, and
ZhaoE.
, “Efficacy and Safety of Negative Pressure versus Natural Drainage after Thyroid Surgery,” Medicine
97, no. 31 (2018): e11576, 10.1097/MD.0000000000011576.30075525
PMC6081074