Use and timing of referral to specialized palliative care services for people with cancer: A mortality follow-back study among treating physicians in Belgium

• Gaëlle Vanbutsele ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: gaelle.vanbutsele@uzgent.be (GV); Kenneth.chambaere@vub.be (KC); koen.pardon@vub.be (KP)

  Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0284-8585

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• Luc Deliens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Veronique Cocquyt,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Joachim Cohen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Koen Pardon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koen Pardon, Kenneth Chambaere

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gaelle.vanbutsele@uzgent.be (GV); Kenneth.chambaere@vub.be (KC); koen.pardon@vub.be (KP)

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

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• Kenneth Chambaere

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koen Pardon, Kenneth Chambaere

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gaelle.vanbutsele@uzgent.be (GV); Kenneth.chambaere@vub.be (KC); koen.pardon@vub.be (KP)

  Affiliations End-of-Life Care Research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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