Coaching doctors to improve ethical decision-making in adult hospitalised patients potentially receiving excessive treatment: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

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    Several large multicenter studies suggest that clinicians in Belgium reflect less about the quality of care provided to patients with a high probability of dying (prospective study) and more often provide aggressive treatment at endof-life (retrospective study) in comparison with clinicians in surrounding countries. In the APPROPRICUS study performed in 9 European countries and Israel, 27% of the ICU clinicians working on the day of study claimed to take care of at least one patient who received inappropriate, mostly excessive care. To perform the power analysis for the current study, the authors measured . . .

     

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