Additional file 1 of Ethical and coordinative challenges in setting up a national cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

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Additional file 1: Tab. S1. General overview of documents submitted to the responsible ethics committee for an ethics application for study sites of the Cross-Sectoral Platform (SUEP) and the High-Resolution Platform (HAP). SOP = standard operating procedure; DZHK = German Center for Cardiovascular Research; NUM = Network University Medicine. *submission only at selected ethics committees. Tab. S2. Correlation of hospitalization incidence in Germany and patient recruitment in NAPKON Cross-Sectoral Platform and High-Resolution Platform according to the COVID-19 waves defined by the Robert Koch Institute [27]. Wave consideration does not begin until calendar week (KW) 10/2021 because hospitalization incidences were not available until that week. Tab. S3. Correlation of hospitalization incidence in Germany and patient recruitment in NAPKON Cross-Sectoral Platform and High-Resolution Platform according to the COVID-19 waves defined by the Robert Koch Institute [27]. Wave consideration begins at calendar week (KW) 45/2020, describing the first week in which NAPKON patients were recruited. Fig. S1. Correlation of COVID-19 incidence in Germany and patient recruitment in the Cross-Sectoral Platform (SUEP, university (UK) and nonuniversity (NUK) study sites) and High-Resolution Platform (HAP) study sites. Recruited patients per week are shown as stacked columns. The observation period is reported in calendar weeks, starting with the NAPKON recruitment launch in November 2020 and ending in the last calendar week of 2021. COVID-19 incidence represents the mean of infections per 100,000 inhabitants per calendar week in Germany [26]. Waves are classified according to the specifications of the Robert Koch Institute [27] and visualized in different shades.

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