RETRACTION: Efficacy and Safety of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjuvant to Local Wound Infiltration Anaesthesia: A Meta‐Analysis With Trial Sequential Analysis of 23 Randomised Controlled Trials

TL;DR

A paper claiming to analyze the effectiveness and safety of using dexmedetomidine with local anesthesia was retracted due to a flawed peer review process.

Contribution

The paper itself was retracted, so no novel contribution is presented.

Findings

The article was retracted after an investigation found the peer review process was compromised.

The retraction was agreed upon by the journal's Editor in Chief and publisher.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

RenY.
,
WeiM.
,
LiuH.
,
WangY.
,
ChenH.
,
LiZ.
,
ShiW.
, and
YouF.
, “Efficacy and Safety of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjuvant to Local Wound Infiltration Anaesthesia: A Meta‐Analysis with Trial Sequential Analysis of 23 Randomised Controlled Trials,” International Wound Journal
18, no. 1 (2021): 32–48, 10.1111/iwj.13517.33169515
PMC7949019

The above article, published online on 9 November 2020, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.