About the Authors

Slavica Kochovska

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

slavica.kochovska@uow.edu.au

‡ SK and RI are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Rajam Iyer

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ SK and RI are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation P.D. Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sungwon Chang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation IMPACCT, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Diana Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Vanessa N. Brunelli

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Irina Kinchin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Policy and Management, Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Danny J. Eckert

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Joseph Clark

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull University, Hull, United Kingdom

Jacob Sandberg

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Faculty of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Magnus Ekström

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Faculty of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

David Currow

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Sujeet Rajan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

DCC is an unpaid member of an advisory board for Helsinn Pharmaceuticals and Specialist Therapeutics, and has consulted to, and received intellectual property payments from Mayne Pharma. DJE is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Leadership Fellowship (1116942). Outside the current work, DJE has received research grants from Bayer, Takeda, Invicta Medical, Withings, Eli Lilly, and Apnimed and has served on Scientific Advisory Boards for Apnimed, Invicta, Mosanna, and as a consultant for Bayer. All other authors declare no competing interests. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.