About the Authors

Nashid Islam

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

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

A. K. M. Motiur Rahman Bhuiyan

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

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Afroja Alam

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

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mostofa Kamal Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jheelam Biswas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jheelam.biswas@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Palash Chandra Banik

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Maruf Ahmed Molla

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Mostofa Monwar Kowshik

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mridul Sarker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nezamuddin Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.