1. Department of Palliative Nursing Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
3. Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
4. Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan
5. Iizuka Hospital, Iizuka, Japan
6. Department of Palliative Home Care, Yamato Home Care Clinic Tome, Tome, Japan
7. Department of Palliative Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
8. Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa, Japan
9. Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
10. Department of Palliative Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
11. Juntendo Tokyo Koto Geriatric Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
12. Rokko Hospital, Kobe, Japan
13. Working Practitioner Group of Palliative Care Quality Evaluation, Committee On Specialized and Cross-Sectional Palliative Care Promotion, Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine, Osaka, Japan
14. Hyogo Prefectural Harima-Himeji General Medical Center, Himeji, Japan
15. Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
16. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan
17. National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan