RETRACTION: Prevalence of Pressure Ulcer and Related Factors in Orthopaedic Wards: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

K. Asadi, A. Fouladpour, P. G. Vajargah, A. Mollaei, M. Firooz, S. J. Hosseini, M. Z. Mahdiabadi, P. Samidoust, P. Takasi, S. Karkhah, A. Salari, and A. Aris, "Prevalence of Pressure Ulcer and Related Factors in Orthopaedic Wards: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," International Wound Journal 20, no. 7 (2023): 2914-2923, https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14156. The above article, published online on 24 March 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. A third party reported to the journal that they had found evidence of excessive self-citations in the reference list of this article. The publisher did not confirm the evidence of excessive self-citations. Upon further investigation, the publisher also concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. In view of the clear evidence of compromised peer review, the parties agreed that the paper must be retracted. The authors disagree with the retraction.