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Comment
. 2021 Nov;74(5):2905-2907.
doi: 10.1002/hep.31791. Epub 2021 Sep 16.

Letter to the Editor: Serum Albumin in COVID-19: A Good Example in Which Analytical and Clinical Performance of a Laboratory Test Are Strictly Intertwined

Sara Pasqualetti  1 , Elena Aloisio  1 , Mauro Panteghini  1
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Letter to the Editor: Serum Albumin in COVID-19: A Good Example in Which Analytical and Clinical Performance of a Laboratory Test Are Strictly Intertwined

Sara Pasqualetti et al. Hepatology. 2021 Nov.
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Box and whisker plots showing the distribution of results of serum ALB in a cohort of 390 patients with COVID‐19, according to death during hospitalization (nonsurvivors) versus hospital discharge after clinical recovery (survivors). Adapted from Aloisio et al.( 2 )
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