About the Authors

Wei Gao

wei.gao@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, United Kingdom

Vincent Crosby

Affiliation Palliative Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Andrew Wilcock

Affiliation Palliative Medicine and Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Rachael Burman

Affiliation King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, United Kingdom

Eli Silber

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Kings' College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Nilay Hepgul

Affiliation King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, United Kingdom

K Ray Chaudhuri

Affiliation National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence, Kings College Hospital and Kings College, London, United Kingdom

Irene J. Higginson

Affiliation King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, United Kingdom

on behalf of the OPTCARE Neuro trial

Membership of the OPTCARE Neuro trial is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WG IJH. Analyzed the data: WG IJH. Wrote the paper: WG VC AW RB ES NH KRC IJH.