Cognitive interviewing proved valuable to increase face and content validity of the questionnaire. The concurrent approach in two languages - to our knowledge the first such approach in palliative care - benefited the refinement. Psychometric validation of the refined Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale is now underway.
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