Reply to R.V. Patel et al

Masanori Mori¹, Cheng-Pei Lin¹, Shao-Yi Cheng¹+13

• ¹Masanori Mori, MD, Division of Palliative and Supportive Care, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan; Cheng-Pei Lin, RN, MSc, PhD, Institute of Community Health Care, College of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Shao-Yi Cheng, MD, MSc, DrPH, Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Sang-Yeon Suh, MD, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea, Department of Medicine, Dongguk University Medical School, Seoul, South Korea; Sayaka Takenouchi, RN, PhD, MPH, Department of Nursing Ethics, Division of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Raymond Ng, MBBS, MMed, FAMS, Palliative and Supportive Care, Woodlands Health, Singapore; Helen Chan, RN, BSN, PhD, The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Sun-Hyun Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University, International St Mary's Hospital, Incheon, South Korea; Ping-Jen Chen, MD, PhD, Department of Family Medicine and Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital and School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Kwok Keung Yuen, MBChB, MSc, FRCR, FHKCR, FHKAM, Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; Maiko Fujimori, PhD, Division of Supportive Care, Survivorship and Translational Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan; Takashi Yamaguchi, MD, PhD, Department of Palliative Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan; Jun Hamano, MD, PhD and Yoshiyuki Kizawa, MD, PhD, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Tatsuya Morita, MD, Division of Palliative and Supportive Care, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan; and Diah Martina, MD, PhD, Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Division of Psychosomatic and Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.