About the Authors

Sandra Martins Pereira

Affiliation Instituto de Bioética, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

Carla Margarida Teixeira

Affiliations Instituto de Bioética, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Dr. Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Ana Sofia Carvalho

Affiliation Instituto de Bioética, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

Pablo Hernández-Marrero

pmarrero@porto.ucp.pt

Affiliation Instituto de Bioética, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

InPalIn

Membership of Project “InPalIn: Integrating Palliative and Intensive Care” is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

This study was partially supported by Fundação Grünenthal and Fundação Merck, Sharpe and Dohme (2007/2011), which provided financial support during the period of data collection. It was conducted as part of a larger project entitled InPalIn: Integrating Palliative and Intensive Care, also funded by Fundação Grünenthal and Fundação Merck, Sharpe and Dohme (Ref.: Inpalin_BPD_I). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Hence, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMP CT ASC PHM. Data curation: SMP CT. Formal analysis: SMP CT PHM. Funding acquisition: ASC SMP PHM. Investigation: SMP CT. Methodology: SMP CT. Project administration: SMP. Visualization: SMP CT ASC PHM. Writing – original draft: SMP PHM. Writing – review & editing: SMP CT ASC PHM.