About the Authors

Manon S. Boddaert

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

m.boddaert@iknl.nl

Affiliations Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, the Netherlands, Center of Expertise in Palliative Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

Joep Douma

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

Affiliations Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, the Netherlands, Palliactief, Dutch Society for Professionals in Palliative Care, Delft, the Netherlands

Anne-Floor Q. Dijxhoorn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, the Netherlands, Center of Expertise in Palliative Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

René A. C. L. Héman

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Royal Dutch Medical Association, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Carin C. D. van der Rijt

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Palliactief, Dutch Society for Professionals in Palliative Care, Delft, the Netherlands, Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Saskia S. C. M. Teunissen

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Netherlands Association for Palliative Care (PZNL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

Peter C. Huijgens

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

Kris C. P. Vissers

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Palliactief, Dutch Society for Professionals in Palliative Care, Delft, the Netherlands, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CCDR declares receiving fees from Kyowa Kirin for consulting activities outside the submitted work and paid to her department. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.