What Are Physicians' Reasons for Not Referring People with Life-Limiting Illnesses to Specialist Palliative Care Services? A Nationwide Survey

• Kim Beernaert ,

  * E-mail: kim.beernaert@vub.ac.be

  Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

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• Luc Deliens,

  Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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• Koen Pardon,

  Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

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• Lieve Van den Block,

  Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Dirk Devroey,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Kenneth Chambaere ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Chambaere, Joachim Cohen

  Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

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• Joachim Cohen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Chambaere, Joachim Cohen

  Affiliation End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium

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