Why albumin may not work.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Fluid resuscitation in neonatal and pediatric hypovolemic shock: a Dutch Pediatric Society evidence-based clinical practice guideline.Intensive care medicine · 2006
   Guideline
2. From Serum to Surgery: The Significance of Albumin in Preoperative Risk Stratification-An Analysis of 200,015 Plastic Surgery Patients.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2026
   Article
3. Is albumin administration in the acutely ill associated with increased mortality? Results of the SOAP study.Critical care (London, England) · 2005
   Article
4. Recent evidence for intravenous fluid choice in patients with severe infection.Intensive care medicine · 2001
   Review
5. Human albumin administration in critically ill patients. Evidence needs to be shown in paediatrics.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
   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

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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