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BMC Palliative Care BioMed Central Research article Open Access Home visits by family physicians during the end-of-life: Does patient income or residence play a role? 1 1 2 Frederick I Burge* , Beverley Lawson and Grace Johnston Address: 1Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and 2School of Health Services Administration, Dalhousie University; and Cancer Care Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada Email: Frederick I Burge* - fred.burge@dal.ca; Beverley Lawson - bev.lawson@dal.ca; Grace Johnston - grace.johnston@dal.ca * Corresponding author Published: 27 January 2005 Received: 01 September 2004 Accepted: 27 January 2005 BMC Palliative Care 2005, 4:1 doi:10.1186/1472-684X-4-1 This article is available from: /1472-684X/4/1 © 2005 Burge et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: With a growing trend for those with advanced cancer to die at home, there is a corresponding increase in need for primary medical care in that setting. Yet those with lower incomes and in rural regions are often challenged to have their health care needs met. This study examined the association between patient income and residence and the receipt of Family P