About the Authors

Dawn M. Guthrie

Contributed equally to this work with: Dawn M. Guthrie, Nicole Williams

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

dguthrie@wlu.ca

Affiliations Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Nicole Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Dawn M. Guthrie, Nicole Williams

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

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Cheryl Beach

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Integrated Community Services, Fraser Health, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Emma Buzath

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Provincial Palliative and-End-of-Life Care, Seniors Health and Continuing Care, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Joachim Cohen

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Anja Declercq

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations LUCAS – Center for Care Research and Consultancy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, CESO – Center for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Kathryn Fisher

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Brant E. Fries

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Management and Policy and Department of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Donna Goodridge

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Kirsten Hermans

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation LUCAS – Center for Care Research and Consultancy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

John P. Hirdes

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Hsien Seow

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Maria Silveira

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Aynharan Sinnarajah

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Susan Stevens

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Peter Tanuseputro

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Deanne Taylor

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Research Department, Interior Health Authority, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, Rural Coordination Centre of BC, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

Christina Vadeboncoeur

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Roger Neilson House, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tracy Lyn Wityk Martin

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Provincial Palliative and-End-of-Life Care, Seniors Health and Continuing Care, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. A. Sinnarajah has received research grants (last 5 years) on palliative care (as principal investigator or co-investigator), from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, MSI Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, Applied Research in Cancer Control, College of Family Physicians of Canada, Choosing Wisely Alberta, Alberta Innovates Health Research, Alberta Cancer Foundation, Alberta Health Services, University of Calgary, Canadian Frailty Network, Alberta Health and Campus Alberta Health Outcomes and Public Health. He has an academic appointment for palliative care research with Queen’s University and Lakeridge Health (currently), and University of Calgary (last 5 years). Lastly, he is/has paid medical administrative positions with Alberta Health Services and Lakeridge Health. The remaining authors declare that no competing interests exist. We confirm that Dr. Sinnarajah has some competing interests to report (previously detailed in the online submission) and we confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.