About the Authors

Ruth Piers

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

ruth.piers@uzgent.be

‡ Shared first authorship.

Affiliations Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, Palliative Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Let Dillen

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

‡ Shared first authorship.

Affiliation Palliative Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Katrijn Goethals

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Resources, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

An Lievrouw

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Center, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Karen Versluys

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Aglaja De Pauw

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Celine Jacobs

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Ine Moors

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Fritz Offner

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Anja Velghe

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, Palliative Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Nele Van Den Noortgate

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, Palliative Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Pieter Depuydt

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Patrick Druwé

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Dimitri Hemelsoet

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Alfred Meurs

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Jiska Malotaux

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Wim Van Biesen

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Francis Verbeke

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Eric Derom

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Dieter Stevens

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Michel De Pauw

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Fiona Tromp

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Hans Van Vlierberghe

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastro-enterology and Hepatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Karen Geboes

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Center, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, Department of Gastro-enterology and Hepatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Frank Manesse

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

Affiliations Independent, Conversio, Ghent, Belgium, Kets de Vries Institute, London, United Kingdom

Stijn Vanheule

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

Affiliation Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Dominique D. Benoit

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

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Competing Interests

On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states there is no conflict of interest with regard to the content of this manuscript. This study is supported by grants from the Ghent University Hospital “Fonds voor Innovatie en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek” and the Belgian “Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek” FWO (senior clinical investigators grant 1800518N obtained by Benoit in 2017). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.