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Patients in the study. Flow chart of patients included in the analysis. Two thirds of the admitted patients were evaluable. Among those, nearly 1/4 of the patients had low albumin levels upon admission. The criteria for excluding the 4881 patients were: no recorded albumin measure and albumin measured more than 24 h after the time of admission.
