The characteristics of patients’ medical care, living will, and signs of death by age and the place of death: A cross-sectional study using a questionnaire survey targeting physicians with expertise in end-of-life care

• Mitsutaka Yakabe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tatsuya Hosoi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shoya Matsumoto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shoho Miura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Hoshi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Soichiro Iwao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Society For Dying With Dignity, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshihiro Kitamura,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Japan Society For Dying With Dignity, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Medical School, Center for Medical Education, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masahiro Akishita,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sumito Ogawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ^* suogawa@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5935-276X

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