{"id":1361,"date":"2018-07-21T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:43:17","slug":"shortcuts-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2018\/07\/21\/shortcuts-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cognitive Impairment and Pain Among Nursing Home Residents With Cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dub\u00e9 CE, Mack DS, Hunnicutt JN, Lapane KL.<\/p>\n<p>J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018 Jun;55(6):1509-1518.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cross-sectional study in the US looked at the variation of the documentation and management of pain in cancer patients with cognitive impairment who were newly admitted to residential homes (n=367,462). The authors found that self-reported pain was present in 55.9% with moderate cognitive impairment, and 41.8% with severe cognitive impairment, whilst 67.9% with no\/mild cognitive impairment had pain documented. Staff-assessed pain, 41.1% with no\/mild cognitive impairment had daily pain, whilst 32.4% with moderate cognitive impairment and 32.1% % with severe cognitive impairment had pain. Pain prevalence was lower in patients with severe cognitive impairment compared to no\/mild\/moderate cognitive impairment and this group received less pharmacologic treatment for their pain.<\/p>\n<p>Composed by Elaine Boland.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Impairment and Pain Among Nursing Home Residents With Cancer. Dub\u00e9 CE, Mack DS, Hunnicutt JN, Lapane KL. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018 Jun;55(6):1509-1518. &nbsp; A cross-sectional study in the US looked at the variation of the documentation and management of pain in cancer patients with cognitive impairment who were newly admitted to residential homes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2018\/07\/21\/shortcuts-94\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}