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Table 3 Total number of clusters required according to different average sizes of the clusters and ICC (ES = 0.55, alpha = 0.05, power = 0.80)

From: Improving end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards using the Care Programme for the Last Days of Life: study protocol for a phase 3 cluster randomized controlled trial

  

Average size of the clusters

  

20

30

40

ICC

0.02

10

8

8

0.03

12

10

10

0.04

12

10

10

0.05

14

12

10