The Journal of the American College of Cardiologists announced its decision to retract a June study titled, "Impact of Rotor Ablation in Nonparoxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Patients Results From the Randomized OASIS Trial," because of problems discovered with its being a randomized trial.
The JACC wrote: "In the title and multiple times in the article, the study is referred to as a "randomized trial" but deviation from a random allocation of subjects to treatments across sites and the imbalance introduced by a non-random “randomization error” were not disclosed in the manuscript."
Additionally, registration with ClinicalTrials.gov was not complete when patient enrollment for the study began.
Nicholas joined TriMed in 2016 as the managing editor of the Chicago office. After receiving his master’s from Roosevelt University, he worked in various writing/editing roles for magazines ranging in topic from billiards to metallurgy. Currently on Chicago’s north side, Nicholas keeps busy by running, reading and talking to his two cats.