Hilbert-Carius, Peter
Schwarzkopf, Daniel
Reinhart, Konrad
Hartog, Christiane S.
Lefering, Rolf
Bernhard, Michael
Struck, Manuel F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0070-3406
Article History
Received: 1 March 2018
Accepted: 24 July 2018
First Online: 1 August 2018
Competing Interests
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests regarding this manuscript. R.L. declares that his institute has an ongoing service agreement with AUC GmbH who is the owner of the TraumaRegister DGU. This agreement includes also the statistical support of scientific analyses of registry data. D.S. declares that he has no conflicts of interest. He is fully employed by the Center for Sepsis Control and Care. The CSCC is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF No. 01EO1502). K.R. declares that he is unpaid chair of the Global Sepsis Alliance that for which CLS Behring is a sponsor, he is a paid advisor of Adrenomed Berlin, Germany and holds equity in InflaRx Jena, Germany. C.S.H. declares that she is partially employed by the MidGerman Sepsis Cohort (MSC) which receives funding by the Integrated Research and Treatment Center - Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC) at the Jena University Hospital and the Rudolf Presl GmbH, Kreischa. The CSCC is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF No. 01EO1502). The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any conflicts of interest.