RETRACTION: Surgical Site Infection Following Operative Treatment of Open Fracture: Incidence and Prognostic Risk Factors

TL;DR

This retracted paper originally aimed to study surgical site infections after open fracture surgery and their risk factors.

Contribution

The paper has been retracted due to a compromised peer review process and does not contribute valid findings.

Findings

The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.

No valid findings or conclusions can be drawn from this retracted paper.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

HuQ.
,
ZhaoY.
,
SunB.
,
QiW.
, and
ShiP.
, “Surgical Site Infection Following Operative Treatment of Open Fracture: Incidence and Prognostic Risk Factors,” International Wound Journal
17, no. 3 (2020): 708–715, 10.1111/iwj.13330.32068337
PMC7949428

The above article, published online on 18 February 2020, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.