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

PMC · DOI: 10.1111/iwj.70640 · 2025-04-23

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The paper has been retracted due to a compromised peer review process and does not contribute valid findings.

## Key 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- The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.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The above article, published online on 18 February 2020, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** Infection (MESH:D007239), Fracture (MESH:D050723)

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12015182