1. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2. Clinical Trial Centre Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
3. Department of Intensive Care and Intermediate Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
4. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, HELIOS Hospital Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow, Germany
5. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
6. Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
7. Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig, Germany
8. Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Management, Vivantes-Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
9. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
10. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany
11. Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Management, HELIOS Hospital Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
12. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
13. Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Vivantes Humboldt Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
14. Department of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany
15. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, HELIOS Hospital Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
16. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
17. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Management, Klinikum Oldenburg Medical Campus Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany
18. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
19. Center for Clinical Studies, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany