The project is a joint collaboration by a European consortium of clinicians and researchers from many fields.
The consortium represents geographical and professional diversity and skills, with expertise in intensive care, palliative care, nursing care, general medicine, cardiology, oncology, anaesthesiology, philosophy, medical ethics, medical education, health economics, social work, psychology, science communication, biostatistics and data management and project management as well as experts and trustees with experience in patient advocacy groups.
The EPIC project implements
- a harmonized palliative care practice model for the ICU (the EPIC model)
- a multicentre randomised clinical trial to document the effectiveness of the EPIC model
- substudies to strengthen and refine the EPIC model for sustainability
- a social science and humanities approach to develop ethical guidelines for the European civic society.
