Albumin: don't confuse us with the facts. Rather than fulminating, seek to answer the questions raised.

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. Human albumin and starch administration in critically ill patients: a prospective randomized clinical trial.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2004
   Trial
2. From conflict to controversy: the use and abuse of human albumin solutions after the Second World War.Anaesthesia and intensive care · 2023
   Review
3. Guidelines for the clinical use of albumin: comparison of use in two Italian hospitals and a third hospital without guidelines.Current therapeutic research, clinical and experimental · 2003
   Article
4. Efficacy of albumin in critically ill patients.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
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5. More on albumin. Use of human albumin in UK fell substantially when systematic review was published.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Fluid resuscitation with colloid or crystalloid solutions in critically ill patients: a systematic review of randomised trials.1998
• Comment on
  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

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