Boddaert, M.S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2158-8221
Stoppelenburg, A.
Hasselaar, J.
van der Linden, Y.M.
Vissers, K.C.P.
Raijmakers, N.J.H.
Brom, L.
Article History
Received: 8 April 2021
Accepted: 18 October 2021
First Online: 11 November 2021
Declarations
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: This study involved organizations (hospitals) and no human subjects. Therefore, within the scope of the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO) and according to the Central Committee on Research involving Human Subjects (CCMO) this type of study is exempt from approval of an ethics committee.All methods were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (e.g. Declaration of Helsinki and the General Data Protection Act). All respondents (i.e. heads of specialist palliative care teams or hospital palliative care programme leaders) were informed that participation was anonymous and voluntary and withdrawal of the survey was possible at any time. As the respondents were no research subjects themselves and solely provided organisational data, respondent participation in the survey was regarded as implicit consent.For more information on local legislation please see and .
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.