About the Authors

Barbara A. Daveson

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara A. Daveson, Samuel Frederic Allingham, Sabina Clapham

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

bdaveson@uow.edu.au

Affiliation Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Samuel Frederic Allingham

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara A. Daveson, Samuel Frederic Allingham, Sabina Clapham

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Sabina Clapham

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara A. Daveson, Samuel Frederic Allingham, Sabina Clapham

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Claire E. Johnson

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Monash Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Eastern Health, Victoria, Australia

David C. Currow

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

Patsy Yates

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, Queensland Health, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

Kathy Eagar

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: SC and KE (with other colleagues) developed the PCOC SAS. Otherwise, the authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.