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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	Sponsor	Recruitment and acquisition sites
01	PARIS	AP-HP	Hôpital Fernand-Widal Centre Cardiologique du Nord
02	COLOMBES	AP-HP	Hôpital Louis-Mourier Centre Cardiologique du Nord
03	BESANCON	INSERM	Centre hospitalier régionnal universitaire de Besançon
04	DRESDEN	Technische Universität Dresden	Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
05	MUNICH	LMU München	Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
06	FRANKFURT	Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main
07	BARCELONA_CLINIC	Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
08	BARCELONA_BETA	Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques	Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center
09	LONDON	King's College London
10	NEWCASTLE	Newcastle University
11	COPENHAGEN	Københavns Universitet	Rigshospitalet
12	GOTEBORG	Göteborgs universitet	Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset
13	OSLO	Universitetet i Oslo
14	BERGEN	Universitetet i Oslo
15	MILAN	Università degli Studi di Milano	Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
16	BRESCIA	Università degli Studi di Milano	ASST Spedali Civili

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 MUNICH 12 weeks after lithium initiation would be identified as:

05-099-M03

On the other hand, time series cannot be associated to a specific point in time and are therefore simply identified by the 6-character patient identifier.