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- Recruiting patients into randomized clinical trials in surgery
- Systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized clinical trials of self‐expanding metallic stents as a bridge to surgery versus emergency surgery for malignant left‐sided large bowel obstruction
- Comparison of liver transplantation outcomes from adult split liver and circulatory death donors
- Perineal reconstruction after abdominoperineal excision using inferior gluteal artery perforator flaps
- Prognostic significance of peritoneal washing cytology in patients with gastric cancer
Joint Editors-in-Chief request for determination regarding papers published by Dr Yoshitaka Fujii
The journal Anaesthesia has published a manuscript by J. B. Carlisle that appears to present overwhelming evidence that the distributions of many variables reported by Dr Yoshitaka Fujii in 168 published trials could not have occurred by chance. The article can be read here. Please note that, while the title of the paper states 169 papers, there is one duplicated reference, so the actual number of papers analysed in the manuscript is 168.
BJS has published one of these articles and the European Journal of Surgery, which was taken over by BJS in 2003, published two of these articles.
A letter signed by a number of affected Editors-in-Chief has been sent to the institutions in which Dr Fujii carried out his research. The letter can be read here. A statement from the University of Toho, Japan, at which Dr Fujii most recently worked, can be viewed here. He has been dismissed from post.
We intend to retract the three manuscripts based on the evidence of fraud demonstrated in the analysis by Mr Carlisle. However, before any retraction is made we are offering institutions the opportunity to attest to the integrity of any manuscript produced under their auspices.
The May 2012 issue is now available online featuring five articles on abdominal aortic aneurysm
This issue carries five articles on the subject of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) as well as a podcast featuring discussions with Professor Janet Powell of Imperial College, London and Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Director of the NHS AAA Screening Programme in England.
The first article discussed is Explaining the decrease in mortality for abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture by A. Anjum, R. von Allmen, R. Greenhalgh and J.T. Powell. Br J Surg 2012; 98: 637-647. This can be read here.
The second article is Meta-analysis of individual patient data to examine factors affecting growth and rupture of small abdominal aortic aneuryms by M.J. Sweeting, S.G. Thompson, L.C. Brown and J.T. Powell on behalf of the RESCAN collaborators. Br J Surg 2012; 98: 655-665. This can be read here.
Mr Earnshaw goes on to describe the work of the NHS AAA Screening Programme in England as well as the three other articles on the subject included in the issue:
1. Regional variation in the incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in Sweden. R. Hulten, J. Forsberg, L. Alfredsson, J. Swedenborg and K. Leander. Br J Surg 2012; 98: 647-653.
2. Provider volume and long-term outcome after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. P.J.E. Holt, A. Karthikesalingam, D. Hofman, J.D. Poloniecki, R.J. Hinchliffe, I.M. Loftus and M.M. Thompson. Br J Surg 2012; 98: 666-672.
3. Evaluation of five risk prediction models for elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using the UK National Vascular database. S.W. Grant, A.D. Grayson, D.C. Mitchell and C.N. McCollum. Br J Surg 2012; 98: 673-679.
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