About the Authors
- Wei Gao
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* E-mail: wei.gao@kcl.ac.uk
Affiliation King's College London, School of Medicine, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom
- Yuen K. Ho
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Affiliation King's College London, School of Medicine, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom
- Julia Verne
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Affiliation South West Public Health Observatory, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Myer Glickman
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Affiliation Life Events & Population Sources Division, Office for National Statistics, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
- Irene J. Higginson
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Affiliation King's College London, School of Medicine, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom
- on behalf of the GUIDE_Care project
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¶Membership of the GUIDE_Care project is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Developed analysis plan: WG IJH. Data checking, recoding, and merger of datasets: WG YKH. Critical review: WG IJH JV MG YKH. Co-guarantors: WG IJH. Conceived and designed the experiments: WG IJH JV MG. Analyzed the data: WG YKH. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: WG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: WG IJH JV MG. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: WG IJH JV MG YKH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: WG IJH JV MG YKH.