RETRACTION: Clinical Study on Orthopaedic Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis With Soft Tissue Defect In Adults

TL;DR

A clinical study on treating chronic osteomyelitis with soft tissue defects in adults has been retracted due to a compromised peer review process.

Contribution

The paper does not contribute new findings as it has been retracted due to ethical issues in the peer review process.

Findings

The article was accepted based on a compromised peer review process.

The retraction was agreed upon by the journal editor and publisher after an investigation.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhangX.
,
YangX.
,
ChenY.
,
WangG.
,
SingP.
,
ZhaoZ.
, and
BiH.
, “Clinical Study on Orthopaedic Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis With Soft Tissue Defect In Adults,” International Wound Journal
19, no. 6 (2022): 1349–1356, 10.1111/iwj.13729.34935287
PMC9493237

The above article, published online on 21 December 2021, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.