More on albumin. Use of human albumin in UK fell substantially when systematic review was published.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Albumin for people with liver cirrhosis and bacterial infections.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
   Pooled it
2. Plasma expanders for people with cirrhosis and large ascites treated with abdominal paracentesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
   Pooled it
3. From conflict to controversy: the use and abuse of human albumin solutions after the Second World War.Anaesthesia and intensive care · 2023
   Review
4. Comparison of Albumin and Fresh Frozen Plasma as Colloid Therapy in Patients With Major Burns.Cureus · 2023
   Article
5. Association of serum albumin level with incidence and mortality of overt hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis during hospitalization.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2019
   Article
6. Albumin administration in the acutely ill: what is new and where next?Critical care (London, England) · 2014
   Review
7. Albumin in critical care: SAFE, but worth its salt?Critical care (London, England) · 2004
   Review
8. Choice of fluid for resuscitation of septic shock.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2002
   Article
9. Debate: Albumin administration should be avoided in the critically ill.Critical care (London, England) · 2000
   Review
10. An alternative pathway for preclinical research in fluid management.Critical care (London, England) · 2000
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Human albumin administration in critically ill patients: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.1998

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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