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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. Replies from 81 persons working in 79 programs were chosen for data analysis. Calculation of percentages and correlations for certain independent (sub)variables, along with consideration of some replies to open ended questions, yields a limited sketch of Canadian hospital based palliative care in the late 1980s. Funding of hospital-based palliative care in Canada, as elsewhere, remains an on-going and limiting concern.

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A profile of Canadian hospital-based palliative care

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