About the Authors

Aline De Vleminck

adevlemi@vub.ac.be

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Koen Pardon

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Kim Beernaert

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Reginald Deschepper

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Dirk Houttekier

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Chantal Van Audenhove

Affiliation LUCAS (Center for Care Research and Consultancy), Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium

Luc Deliens

Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Department of Public and Occupational Health, and EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Vander Stichele

Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADV KP KB DH RD CVA LD RVS. Analyzed the data: ADV KB. Wrote the paper: ADV KP. Contributed to the planning of the data collection and the actual collection of data: ADV KP LD RVS. Contributed to the writing of the article and approved the final version of this manuscript: ADV KP KB RD DH CVA LD RVS.