End-of-life communication: a retrospective survey of representative general practitioner networks in four countries.

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Published in J Pain Symptom Manage on August 07, 2013

Authors

Natalie Evans1, Massimo Costantini2, H R Pasman3, Lieve Van den Block4, Gé A Donker5, Guido Miccinesi6, Stefano Bertolissi7, Milagros Gil8, Nicole Boffin9, Oscar Zurriaga10, Luc Deliens11, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen3, EURO IMPACT

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: n.evans@vumc.nl.
2: Regional Palliative Care Network, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa, Italy.
3: Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4: End-of-Life Care Research Group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
5: Netherlands Institute of Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
6: Clinical and Descriptive Epidemiology Unit, ISPO Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Florence, Italy.
7: Italian Society of General Medicine, Florence, Italy.
8: Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Castille and León, Spain.
9: Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
10: Public Health and Research General Directorate, Valencian Regional Health Administration, Valencia, Spain; Higher Public Health Research Centre, Valencia, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain.
11: Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; End-of-Life Care Research Group, Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

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