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The effect of type of ventilation used in the operating room and surgical site infection: A meta-analysis – EXPRESSION OF CONCERN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2022

Jian Bao  and
Jianhua Li
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 9 , September 2022 , pp. 1316
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

The editors of the journal would like to alert readers of this article Reference Bao and Li1 that the reported systematic review is an extension of a previously published systematic review of the same clinical questions by Bischoff et al. Reference Bischoff, Kubilay, Allegranzi, Egger and Petra Gastmeier2 The authors have extended their systematic review to include two studies published after the cutoff point of the previous systematic review. Although cited in their article, the authors did not make the connection with the previous publication transparent to readers of the article.

References

Bao, J, Li, J. The effect of type of ventilation used in the operating room and surgical site infection: A meta-analysis. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2021; 42: 931–936.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bischoff, P, Kubilay, NZ, Allegranzi, B, Egger, M, Petra Gastmeier, P. Effect of laminar airflow ventilation on surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 2017; 17: 553–561 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed