About the Authors

Nikki McCaffrey

nicola.mccaffrey@flinders.edu.au

Affiliation Flinders Centre for Clinical Change and Health Care Research, Flinders University, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia

Pawel Skuza

nicola.mccaffrey@flinders.edu.au

Affiliation 2eResearch@Flinders, Central Library, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

Katrina Breaden

Affiliation Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia

Simon Eckermann

Affiliation Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Janet Hardy

Affiliation Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Mater Health Services, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sheila Oaten

Affiliation Southern Adelaide Palliative Services, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia

Michael Briffa

Affiliation Palliative Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

David Currow

Affiliation Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Daw Park, South Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM PS SE JH SO MB DC. Performed the experiments: NM SO. Analyzed the data: NM PS KB JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NM PS KB. Wrote the paper: NM PS SE DC.