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Soichiro Okamoto1 , Yu Uneno2 \*, Masanori Mori3 , Takashi Yamaguchi4 and Nobuhisa Nakajima<sup>5</sup>

1 Asoka Vihara Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

2 Seirei Hospice, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

3 Palliative Care Team, Seirei Mikataraha General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

4 Division of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, Konan Hospital, Japan

5 Division of Community-based Medicine and Primary Care, University of the Ryukyus Hospital, Okinawa, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: yuuneno@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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