About the Authors

An Vandervoort

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

Dirk Houttekier

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

Robert Vander Stichele

Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Jenny T. van der Steen

Affiliation EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Expertise Center for Palliative Care, Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lieve Van den Block

lvdblock@vub.ac.be

Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Family Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AV DH RVS JTS LVDB. Analyzed the data: AV LVDB. Wrote the paper: AV DH RVS JTS LVDB.