About the Authors

Jonathan Koffman

jonathan.koffman@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom

Yuen King Ho

Affiliation King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom

Joanna Davies

Affiliation King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom

Wei Gao

Affiliation King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom

Irene J. Higginson

Affiliation King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WG JK IJH. Performed the experiments: WG YKH JD JK. Analyzed the data: WG YKH JD JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG YKH JD JK. Wrote the paper: JK WG JD IJH.