Do patients make decisions about their end of life care in advance? Impact of Advance Care Planning (ACP) on end-of-life (EoL); comparing practices between UK and Japan

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The prior academic year was dedicated to the interviewing part of the project. The plan was to travel to different cities in Japan and UK to interview key health care professionals with either ACP expertise or ICU expertise, to inform the results of this project.Due to COVID pandemic, the interviews had to be postponed. However, key findings from the systematic review have been informally discussed with different health care professionals to inform the interview questions guide for the interview process.A key network of health care experts in the UK have been approached and agreement was achieved to participate in the interview stage of the study.Some health care professionals in Japan have been also approached, but due to the need for formal translation simultaneously, we agreed to delay for the coming academic year.Translation process has been arranged for the Japanese branch of the study.