Barriers and facilitators of advance care planning practices in multi-disciplinary, multi-facility palliative care for Japan’s aging population: A qualitative analysis

• Mariko Tanimoto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: m-tanimoto@thcu.ac.jp, tanimotomariko007gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Faculty of Healthcare, Tokyo Healthcare University, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6507-8816

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• Norihiro Okamura,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Medical Social Worker, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Kaku Sawada,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Tomofumi Igarashi,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Mitsunori Nishikawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Palliative Care, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan, Aioi Geriatric Health Services Facility, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-808X

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