# RETRACTION: Etiological Characteristics of Wound Infection in Severe Trauma Patients and Logistic Regression Analysis of Influencing Factors of Infection

## TL;DR

This retracted paper on wound infections in trauma patients was found to have issues with peer review, methodology, and ethics.

## Contribution

The paper has been retracted due to a compromised peer review and methodological inconsistencies.

## Key findings

- The article was accepted due to a compromised peer review process.
- Contradictory statements and irrelevant references were found in the paper.
- The study lacked proper ethical approval and informed consent information.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

PanX.
,
MoL.
, and
HeX.
, “Etiological Characteristics of Wound Infection in Severe Trauma Patients and Logistic Regression Analysis of Influencing Factors of Infection,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 2 (2024): e14682, 10.1111/iwj.14682.

The above article, published online on 31 January 2024, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, further investigation by the publisher found that the article contains contradictory statements in the methodology and discussion, that many references are irrelevant and do not support the statements made in the article, and that the authors did not provide adequate ethical approval or informed consent information for the study. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.