Review: albumin administration is not associated with excess mortality in acutely ill patients.

D a t a s o u r c e s Published and unpublished trials in any language were identified by searching 4 electronic databases and 4 search engines for relevant Internet resources; hand searching 4 general medicine journals from January 1990 to November 2000; contacting albumin suppliers and authors of published randomized trials; and reviewing bibliographies of previous meta-analyses, review articles, and other investigations involving albumin.