Does early palliative identification improve the use of palliative care services?

• Nicole Mittmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicole.mittmann@sunnybrook.ca

  Affiliations Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3759-2316

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• Ning Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Marnie MacKinnon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Soo Jin Seung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomics (HOPE) Research Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Nicole J. Look Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Craig C. Earle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

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

  Affiliations ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sharon Gradin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Saurabh Sati ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sandy Buchman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ahmed Jakda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Ontario Palliative Care Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Grand River Regional Cancer Centre, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

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• Frances C. Wright

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Mittmann, Ning Liu, Marnie MacKinnon, Soo Jin Seung, Nicole J. Look Hong, Craig C. Earle, Sharon Gradin, Saurabh Sati, Sandy Buchman, Ahmed Jakda, Frances C. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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