RETRACTION: A Systematic Review of Nurses' Knowledge and Related Factors towards the Prevention of Medical Device-Related Pressure Ulcers

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RETRACTION: A. Parvizi, S. Haddadi, A. Mollaei, P. G. Vajargah, P. Takasi, M. Firooz, S. J. Hosseini, R. Farzan, and S. Karkhah, “ A Systematic Review of Nurses' Knowledge and Related Factors towards the Prevention of Medical Device-Related Pressure Ulcers,” International Wound Journal 20, no. 7 (2023): 2843–2854, https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14122.

The above article, published online on 15 February 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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.