A profile of Canadian hospital-based palliative care.
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.
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D002170:Canada; D006738:Hospices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires