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Fliss EM Murtagh, Ping Guo, Alice Firth, Ka Man Yip, Christina Ramsenthaler, Abdel Douiri, Cathryn Pinto, Sophie Pask, Mendwas Dzingina, Joanna M Davies, Suzanne O’Brien, Beth Edwards, Esther I Groeneveld, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Claudia Bausewein & Irene J Higginson.

Fliss EM Murtagh ^1,2,*, Ping Guo ², Alice Firth ², Ka Man Yip ², Christina Ramsenthaler ², Abdel Douiri ³, Cathryn Pinto ², Sophie Pask ^1,2, Mendwas Dzingina ², Joanna M Davies ², Suzanne O’Brien ², Beth Edwards ², Esther I Groeneveld ², Mevhibe Hocaoglu ², Claudia Bausewein ⁴, Irene J Higginson ²

¹ Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK
² Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London, UK
³ School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK
⁴ Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
^* Corresponding author Email: fliss.murtagh@hyms.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: Fliss EM Murtagh is a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator and NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research panel member. Abdel Douiri reports funding support from the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, as well as support from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. Irene J Higginson reports membership of the following: Health and Social Care Delivery Research Commissioned Board Membership (2009–15), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Efficient Studies Design (2015–16), HTA End of Life Care and Add-On Studies (2015–16), Service delivery and Organisation (SDO) Studies Panel Membership, NIHR Senior Investigator and subsequently NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus.