Dierickx, Sigrid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6392-2681
Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje
Penders, Yolanda
Cohen, Joachim
van der Heide, Agnes
Puhan, Milo A.
Ziegler, Sarah
Bosshard, Georg
Deliens, Luc
Chambaere, Kenneth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (100036)
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (34008003)
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (National Research Program 67 “End-of-life”)
Article History
Received: 13 April 2019
Revised: 12 June 2019
Accepted: 28 June 2019
First Online: 11 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: For Belgium, ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Review Board of the Brussels University Hospital of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In the Netherlands, ethical approval was not required for the posthumous data collection of anonymous patient data under the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subject Act. For Switzerland, the study was issued a waiver by the Zurich Cantonal Ethics Board (KEK-StV-Nr. 23/13) since the study did not fall under the regulations for human research acts.
: Participants were informed about the study in a cover letter. Questionnaire return was considered to imply consent to participate.