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Table 1 Total number of clusters required according to different cluster sizes and ICC (ES = 0.4, alpha = 0.05, power = 0.80).

From: The effectiveness of the Liverpool care pathway in improving end of life care for dying cancer patients in hospital. A cluster randomised trial

 

Average size of the clusters

Intraclass Correlation Coefficient

10

15

20

25

0.01

22

16

12

10

0.05

30

24

20

18

0.10

38

32

30

28