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RETRACTION: Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
TL;DR
This retracted paper originally aimed to identify risk factors for surgical site infections after a specific spinal surgery.
Contribution
The paper has been retracted due to a compromised peer review process and incomplete ethical approval information.
Findings
The article was accepted based on a flawed peer review process.
Incomplete ethical approval information was found during the investigation.
The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.
Abstract
RETRACTION: XiaoB. , ChenT.‐Y. , ZhaoQ. , ZhaoM. , YangG.‐Q. , ZhongX.‐H. , and XuY.‐Z. , “Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy,” International Wound Journal 21, no. 4 (2024): e14605, 10.1111/iwj.14605.38149500 PMC10961887 The above article, published online on 27 December 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, further investigation by the publisher found that the authors included incomplete ethical approval information for the study. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWound Healing and Treatments · Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology · Surgical site infection prevention
RETRACTION:
B. Xiao , T.‐Y. Chen , Q. Zhao , M. Zhao , G.‐Q. Yang , X.‐H. Zhong , and Y.‐Z. Xu , “Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy,” International Wound Journal 21, no. 4 (2024): e14605, 10.1111/iwj.14605.38149500 PMC10961887
The above article, published online on 27 December 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, further investigation by the publisher found that the authors included incomplete ethical approval information for the study. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.