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

• Dominique D. Benoit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dominique.benoit@uzgent.be

  Affiliations Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Gent, Belgium, Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, Gent, Belgium

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• Stijn Vanheule,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghent University Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Gent, Belgium

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• Frank Manesse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Independent, Conversio, Gent, Belgium, Kets de Vries Institute, London, United Kingdom

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• Frederik Anseel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghent University Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Gent, Belgium

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• Geert De Soete,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghent University Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Gent, Belgium

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• Katrijn Goethals,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Hospital Ghent Human Resources, Gent, Belgium

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• An Lievrouw,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, Gent, Belgium, Ghent University Hospital Cancer Centre, Gent, Belgium

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• Stijn Vansteelandt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Statistics, Ghent University Faculty of Sciences, Gent, Belgium, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Erik De Haan,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Hult International Business School Ashridge Centre for Coaching, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom, VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Ruth Piers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Gent, Belgium, Ghent University Hospital Geriatrics, Gent, Belgium

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• on behalf of the CODE study group

  ¶The complete list of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation University Hospital Ghent CODE Study Group, Gent, Belgium

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