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We discuss patient IDs for the R-LiNK project.

Recruitment and acquisition sites

Recruitment and acquisition sites are uniquely identified by a 2-digit string and a standardized name:

ID	NAME	Recruitment	Acquisition site
01	FERNAND-WIDAL	AP-HP	Hôpital Fernand-Widal
02	COLOMBES	AP-HP	Hôpital Louis-Mourier
03	BESANCON	INSERM	Centre hospitalier régionnal universitaire de Besançon
04	DRESDEN	Technische Universität Dresden	Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
05	MUENCHEN	LMU München	Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Univesität München
06	FRANKFURT	Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main
07	BARCELONA-IDIBAPS	Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
08	BARCELONA-IMIM	Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques
09	LONDON	King's College London
10	NEWCASTLE	Newcastle University
11	COPENHAGEN	Københavns Universitet
12	GOTHENBURG	Göteborgs universitet
13	OSLO	Universitetet i Oslo
14	BERGEN	Universitetet i Oslo
15	MILAN	Università degli Studi di Milano
16	BRESCIA	Università degli Studi di Milano

Patients

Patients are uniquely identified by a 6-character string, starting with the 2 digits identifying the recruitment centre followed by a dash and the 3 digits of the sequence number of patients within their recruitment centre. For example patient 99 from GOTHENBURG would be identified as:

12-099

Time points

The project has two main time points, for MRI acquisition and biological samples collection. Each time point is identified by a 3-character string, starting with M for month:

ID	Time point
M00	Before lithium initiation
M03	12 weeks after lithium initiation

Samples and data

Biological samples and data collected at a specific point in time are uniquely identified by a 10-character string, the 6-character patient identifier followed by a dash and the 3-character identifier of the time point. For example samples obtained from patient 99 from GOTHENBURG 12 weeks after lithium initiation would be identified as:

12-099-M03

Time series are not associated to a specific point in time and are simply identified by the 6-character patient identifier.