Enhancing palliative care in intensive care units: protocol of EPIC, a controlled, cluster-randomised, non-blinded stepped-wedge design trial with crossover phase

Spyros D Mentzelopoulos, Christiane S Hartog, Theresa Tenge, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Sophie K Piper, Michaela Barbier, Katerina Rusinova, Martin Neukirchen, Stephen Schüürhuis, Hanne Irene Jensen, Vernon van Heerden, Jochen Dutzmann, Dominique Drescher, Markéta Zvara, Victoria Metaxa, Akiva Nachshon, Edoardo De Robertis, Claudia Spies, Andreas Edel

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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168
Published: 2026-02
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@article{allodium:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168,
  title = {Enhancing palliative care in intensive care units: protocol of EPIC, a controlled, cluster-randomised, non-blinded stepped-wedge design trial with crossover phase},
  author = {Spyros D Mentzelopoulos and Christiane S Hartog and Theresa Tenge and Matthias Schwenkglenks and Sophie K Piper and Michaela Barbier and Katerina Rusinova and Martin Neukirchen and Stephen Schüürhuis and Hanne Irene Jensen and Vernon van Heerden and Jochen Dutzmann and Dominique Drescher and Markéta Zvara and Victoria Metaxa and Akiva Nachshon and Edoardo De Robertis and Claudia Spies and Andreas Edel},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {BMJ Open},
  doi = {10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Enhancing palliative care in intensive care units: protocol of EPIC, a controlled, cluster-randomised, non-blinded stepped-wedge design trial with crossover phase
AU  - Spyros D Mentzelopoulos
AU  - Christiane S Hartog
AU  - Theresa Tenge
AU  - Matthias Schwenkglenks
AU  - Sophie K Piper
AU  - Michaela Barbier
AU  - Katerina Rusinova
AU  - Martin Neukirchen
AU  - Stephen Schüürhuis
AU  - Hanne Irene Jensen
AU  - Vernon van Heerden
AU  - Jochen Dutzmann
AU  - Dominique Drescher
AU  - Markéta Zvara
AU  - Victoria Metaxa
AU  - Akiva Nachshon
AU  - Edoardo De Robertis
AU  - Claudia Spies
AU  - Andreas Edel
PY  - 2026
JO  - BMJ Open
DO  - 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168
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Mentzelopoulos, S. D., Hartog, C. S., Tenge, T., Schwenkglenks, M., Piper, S. K., Barbier, M., Rusinova, K., Neukirchen, M., Schüürhuis, S., Jensen, H. I., Heerden, V. V., Dutzmann, J., Drescher, D., Zvara, M., Metaxa, V., Nachshon, A., Robertis, E. D., Spies, C., & Edel, A. (2026). Enhancing palliative care in intensive care units: protocol of EPIC, a controlled, cluster-randomised, non-blinded stepped-wedge design trial with crossover phase. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108168

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