New thinking about postoperative hypoalbuminemia: a hypothesis of occult protein-losing enteropathy
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Funding: This project was supported by the Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision Sciences and a grant from the Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation of Ontario. The views expressed in this paper are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the Ontario Ministry of Health. The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
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