Medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia has announced the retraction of 22 articles it published by Joachim Boldt, MD, PhD.
The decision to retract the articles comes after the publication received notification from Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz, the Rheinland State Medical Board, that there was no institutional review board approval for 89 articles published by Dr. Boldt, including 22 published by Anesthesia & Analgesia from 1999-2009, according to a news release from the International Anesthesia Research Society, publisher of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The 22 articles are about half of the papers he has published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. The publication knows that a few of Dr. Boldt's articles have proper IRB approval, with the balance still under review.
Anesthesia & Analgesia had retracted an article by Dr. Boldt last year because it was possibly based on a study which never occurred and lacked IRB approval. Dr. Boldt was fired last year from his job as head of anesthesia at the Klinikum Ludwigshafen following investigation into the article.
Read the news release about the retraction of the articles by Dr. Joachim Boldt.
Read earlier coverage of the investigation into Dr. Boldt.
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