Article History
Received: 31 October 2017
Accepted: 23 March 2018
First Online: 19 April 2018
Authors’ information
: F. Weijers; MD, special interest in Palliative Care.C. Veldhoven; MD General Practitioner in Berg en Dal, the Netherlands, palliative care specialist; Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine.C. Verhagen; MD PhD Medical Oncologist and palliative care specialist; Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine and department of Medical Oncology.K. Vissers; MD PhD FIPP Professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine; Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine.Y. Engels; PhD Associate professor in timely palliative care and member of Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine.
: The study was approved by the research ethics committee of Radboud university medical center in accordance with the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Acts (WMO) and the declaration of Helsinki, case number 2016–2716. We obtained written informed consent from all of the participants.
: We obtained written informed consent of the participants to publish individual anonymized data.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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