MARS

MARS - Molecular Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Sepsis...

Description

MARS is a multicenter prospective cohort of ICU patients aimed at developing new molecular technologies for early diagnosis and risk stratification of sepsis....

General Design

Type
Biobank, Cohort study
Cohort type
Clinical cohort
Data collection type
Prospective
Design
Longitudinal
Design description
Ongoing prospective cohort and biobank of ICU patients admitted to the UMC Utrecht since 2011. The AMC was a participating center between 2011 and 2013.
Start/End data collection
2011 (ongoing)

Population

Countries
Netherlands (the)
Regions
Noord-Holland, Utrecht
Number of participants
17000
Population age groups
Adult (18+ years)
Main medical condition
  • I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Inclusion criteria
  • Age group inclusion criterion
  • Defined population inclusion criterion
  • Health status inclusion criterion
  • Hospital patient inclusion criterion
Other inclusion criteria
ICU admitted patients, with exception of elective cardiothoracic surgery patients.

Organisations

Lead organisations
  • UMC Utrecht (UMCU)
    Netherlands (the)

    Researcher

Additional organisations
  • Amsterdam Medical Center  (AMC)
    Netherlands (the)

Contributors

Subpopulations

List of subpopulations for this resource...

No results for current selection

Collection events

List of collection events defined for this resource...

No results for current selection

Networks

Part of networks...

Publications

Access conditions

Data and samples are accessible after permission of the principal investigator of the MARS cohort. In general, ethics approval is required for use of biobank samples (TCBio approval)....

Data access conditions
  • health or medical or biomedical research
  • disease specific research
Data use conditions
  • research specific restrictions
  • collaboration required
  • ethics approval required
  • project specific restriction
Data access fee
true
Release type
Closed dataset
Prelinked
false
Linkage options
The questionnaires sent out at 1 year after ICU discharge can be linked to the MARS database. These questionnaires contain data on quality of life and mental well-being at 1 year. Upon request, the MARS database can be enriched with additional healthcare data from the EPD.

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding
The MARS cohort received a grant from the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine (http://www.ctmm.nl) project MARS (grant 04I-201).