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RETRACTION article

Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 28 November 2024
Sec. Cardiac Rhythmology
Volume 11 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2024.1532096
This article is part of the Research Topic Risk Stratification Strategies for Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities View all 49 articles

Retraction: Territory-wide Chinese cohort of long QT syndrome: random survival forest and Cox analyses

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  1. RETRACTED: Territory-Wide Chinese Cohort of Long QT Syndrome: Random Survival Forest and Cox Analyses

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A Retraction of the Brief Research Report Article

Territory-wide Chinese cohort of long QT syndrome: random survival forest and Cox analyses

by Tse G, Lee S, Zhou J, Liu T, Wong ICK, Mak C, Mok NS, Jeevaratnam K, Zhang Q, Cheng SH, Wong WT (2021). Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 8:608592. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.608592

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the ethical approval for this study. An investigation was conducted by Hong Kong Hospital Authority Research Ethics Committee (REC). This committee confirmed that this study did not receive appropriate ethical approval.

An investigation was then conducted in accordance with Frontiers' policies, and it was also confirmed that, contrary to the statement in the article, the study did not receive appropriate ethical approval. Lack of appropriate ethical approval is a breach of Frontiers' guidelines and those of the Committee on Publication Ethics. As such, this article is being retracted.

The retraction was approved by the Chief Editors for Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors do not approve of the retraction.

Citation: Frontiers Editorial Office (2024) Retraction: Territory-wide Chinese cohort of long QT syndrome: random survival forest and Cox analyses. Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 11:1532096. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1532096

Received: 21 November 2024; Accepted: 21 November 2024;
Published: 28 November 2024.

Approved by: Hendrik Tevaearai Stahel, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

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