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Article History

Received: 13 April 2018

Accepted: 6 September 2019

First Online: 7 October 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: In accordance to the laws that regulate “non-interventional clinical research” in France, namely articles L.1121–1 and R.1121–2 of the Public Health Code (), this study did not require written informed consent from the participants or an authorization from an ethics committee. However, after explaining the aim of the study to the patients, the investigator obtained informed verbal consent for the study, which was recorded by the investigator in the patients’ medical record. This is consistent with the regulations for observational studies (the intervention was introduced to the Palliative Care Unit before the research took place). The data we used was anonymized. All legal conditions were respected, including application of Reference Methodology “MR003” of the French national commission governing the application of data privacy laws (“Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés”).

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.