Gunnarsdottir, Sigridur http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7579-8668
Sigurdardottir, Valgerdur
Kloke, Marianne
Radbruch, Lukas
Sabatowski, Rainer
Kaasa, Stein
Klepstad, Pål
Funding for this research was provided by:
The European Palliative Care Research Collaborative. 6th EU programme
Landspítali Háskólasjúkrahús
Háskóli Íslands
The Icelandic Cancer Society
Bergthora Magnusdottir and Jakob J Bjarnason memorial fund
Article History
Received: 12 September 2016
Accepted: 12 June 2017
First Online: 26 June 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participant received information about study participation and their rights and provided informed consent.
: PK has received lecture honorarium from Mundipharma. The authors have full control of all primary data and agree to allow the journal to review the data if requested.
: This study was funded by the European Palliative Care Research Collaborative, 6th EU program, Landspitali—the National University Hospital of Iceland Research Fund, University of Iceland Research Fund, the Icelandic Nurses Association Research Fund, the Icelandic Cancer Society Research Fund, the Memorial fund of the Palliative Care at Landspitali—the National University Hospital of Iceland, the Scientific fund of the Oncology Department at Landspitali—the National University Hospital of Iceland, and Bergthora Magnusdottir and Jakob J Bjarnason Memorial Fund.