1. Institute of Community Health Care, School of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
2. Cicely Saunders Institute, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London, London, UK
3. Department of Palliative Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
4. Palliative and Supportive Care Division, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
5. Hospis Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6. Concord Centre for Palliative Care, Concord, Australia
7. African Palliative Care Association, Kampala, Uganda
8. Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore Cheng-Pei Lin and Sabah Boufkhed are joint first authors.