Abstract
At the request of the Journal’s Editor, the Publisher and the authors, the following article has been retracted.
Li J, Jones JT, Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Kashikar-Zuck S and Brunner HI. Pain predicts poorer health-related quality of life in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study. Journal of International Medical Research. Epub ahead of print 6 December 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0300060517732486.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300060517732486
The article has been retracted from Journal of International Medical Research because the co-authors of the paper had not consented to the paper’s submission for publication, and because the paper does not present the complete findings of the authors’ research.
The corresponding author, Dr Li, submitted the paper with fraudulent contact details for his co-authors and without their consent to submit. Furthermore, the paper made use of an incomplete measurement scale that did not accurately reflect the complete findings of the study, which found other significant variables affected the value of using pain to measure the health-related quality of life of lupus patients.
The complete findings of the study are presented in another paper published by the same authors:
Donnelly C, Cunningham N, Jones JT, Li J, Brunner HI and Kashikar-Zuck S. Fatigue and depression predict reduced health-related quality of life in childhood-onset lupus. Lupus 2017; 27: 124–133.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961203317716317