Revolutionary ICU trial aims to save lives by constantly learning from every patient
NCT ID NCT06667999
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This trial aims to improve care for critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) by testing many treatments at once in a flexible way. It will involve up to 10,000 adults admitted to the ICU. The goal is to quickly find which treatments work best and stop those that are harmful or wasteful, directly helping patients and easing the strain on healthcare systems.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 4
Runs after approval, following long-term safety and how well the treatment works in everyday use.
- Participants
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About 10,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2035
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
The general eligibility criteria below apply to INCEPT as a whole and thus to all domains. Domains may impose domain-specific eligibility criteria that restrict the population eligible for that domain further, but domains are not allowed to broaden the general eligibility criteria. Domain-specific eligibility criteria always apply to all arms in a domain. PLATFORM INCLUSION CRITERIA: * Adult patient (≥18 years old) acutely admitted to the ICU. This includes ICU admissions after emergency surgery, unplanned ICU admissions after elective surgery, and prolonged ICU admissions due to complications after elective surgery (i.e., admissions occurring or being prolonged due to an unexpected, worsened condition, but excluding planned ICU admissions after elective surgery without clinical deterioration). * Eligible for at least one active domain. PLATFORM EXCLUSION CRITERIA: * Informed consent following inclusion expected to be unobtainable (e.g., known previous objections to participation). * Patient is under coercive measures (e.g., ongoing involuntary hospital stay or under the jurisdiction of correctional authorities). Patients who have previously been included in INCEPT may only be included again during new ICU admissions but may only be randomised to domains in which they have not previously been randomised. DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ELIGIBLE CRITERIA: Each domain may have additional eligibility criteria. Refer to the study website for more information (www.incept.dk).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
21 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Anaesthesia, Hospital Sønderjylland
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAabenraa, 6200, Denmark
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Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Amager and Hvidovre Hospital
RECRUITINGHvidovre, 2650, Denmark
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Anesthesiology (ICU), Zealand University Hospital, Nykøbing Falster
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNykøbing Falster, 4800, Denmark
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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital - North Zealand
RECRUITINGHillerød, 3400, Denmark
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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Aalborg University Hospital
RECRUITINGAalborg, 9000, Denmark
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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Gødstrup Hospital
RECRUITINGHerning, 7400, Denmark
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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Regional Hospital Viborg
RECRUITINGViborg, 8800, Denmark
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Department of Anesthesia and intensive care medicine, Kolding Hospital
RECRUITINGKolding, 6000, Denmark
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Department of Anesthesia, Zealand University Hospital
RECRUITINGKøge, 4600, Denmark
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Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGHerlev, 2730, Denmark
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Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital
RECRUITINGOdense, 5000, Denmark
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Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive care, Copenhagen Universisty Hospital - Rigshospitalet
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCopenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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Department of Intensive Care Nord , Aarhus University Hospital
RECRUITINGAarhus, 8200, Denmark
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Department of Intensive Care Øst, Aarhus University Hospital
RECRUITINGAarhus, 8200, Denmark
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Department of Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet
RECRUITINGCopenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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Department of anesthesiology and intensive care, Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital
RECRUITINGCopenhagen, 2400, Denmark
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Department. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
RECRUITINGSvendborg, 5700, Denmark
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Esbjerg Hospital
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGEsbjerg, 6700, Denmark
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Intensive care, Slagelse Hospital
RECRUITINGSlagelse, 4200, Denmark
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Neuroanaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCopenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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Operation og Intensiv, Regional Hospital Randers
RECRUITINGRanders, 8930, Denmark
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