The transfusion of the 15.53% of FFP units that were not compliant with predefined indications (FFP7 category) concerned cases of emergency patients, whose transfusions were mainly based on clinical criteria (e.g., perioperative bleeding, major gastrointestinal bleeding), or patients with hypofibrinogenemia or hypoalbuminemia in hospitals where neither human albumin nor fibrinogen concentrates or cryoprecipitate were available. Here, ALB is linked to Hypoalbuminemia.