title: A profile of Canadian hospital-based palliative care.
abstract: This article describes the characteristics of hospice-based palliative care programs in Canada, based on a sampling of respondents, teams, programs, and hospitals. This report is an outgrowth of a study of social services in Canadian, hospital-based palliative care programs. One hundred eighty-five hospitals were polled between December 1987 and March 1988, using a mailed-out questionnaire. One hundred sixty programs replied, a response rate of 86.5 percent.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006738:Hospices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires