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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

Retraction Notice on Mifepristone Paper Used by Judge in His Decision

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Source:     Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
Publication Date:     Feb. 5, 2024 (used)
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Stephan:  

You may remember a federal judge in Texas ruling that Mifepristone the drug that induces abortions should be taken off the market citing a peer-reviewed journal published by the academic publisher Sage. It turns out, however, that the paper was misinformation submitted by a group of anti-choice researchers. Sage, as this announcement from the publisher reports has retracted the paper and announced it was fake. It will be interesting to see whether the Republican judge follows with his own announcement.

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At the request of Sage and the Journal Editor, the following articles have been retracted:

Studnicki J, Harrison DJ, Longbons T, et al. A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015. Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. 2021;8. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/23333928211053965

Studnicki J, Longbons T, Harrison DJ, et al. A Post Hoc Exploratory Analysis: Induced Abortion Complications Mistaken for Miscarriage in the Emergency Room are a Risk Factor for Hospitalization. Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. 2022;9. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/23333928221103107

Studnicki J, Longbons T, Fisher JW, Harrison DJ, Skop I, MacKinnon SJ. Doctors Who Perform Abortions: Their Characteristics and Patterns of Holding and Using Hospital Privileges. Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. 2019;6. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/2333392819841211

Reader concerns and investigation

A reader contacted the journal with concerns about the 2021 article as to whether presentation of the data in Figures 2 and 3 is misleading, whether there are defects in the selection of the cohort data, and whether the authors’ affiliations with pro-life advocacy organizations, including Charlotte Lozier Institute, present conflicts of interest that the authors should have […]

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