About the Authors

Emilia Pinto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

emiquidade@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Medicine, Porto University, Porto, Portugal, Pain Unit, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique, Anesthesiology Department, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Gustavo Marcos

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Anesthesiology Department, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique, School of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

Camila Walters

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Anesthesiology Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ferraz Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, Porto University, Porto, Portugal, Palliative Care Service, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Lisbon, Portugal

Jahit Sacarlal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

Luisa Castro

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Guilhermina Rego

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Porto University, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

One of the authors is a member of the ethics committee, but he did not participate in the project´s approval. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.