Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess improvements in pain management of nursing home (NH) residents with cancer since the implementation of pain management quality indicators. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: One thousand three hundred eighty-two U.S. NHs (N = 1,382). PARTICIPANTS: Newly admitted, Medicare-eligible NH residents with cancer (N = 8,094). MEASUREMENTS: Nationwide data on NH resident health from Minimum Data Set 2.0 linked to all-payer pharmacy dispensing records (February 2006-June 2007) were used to determine prevalence of pain, including frequency and intensity, and receipt of nonopioid and opioid analgesics. Multinomial logistic regression was used to evaluate resident-level correlates of pain and binomial logistic regression to identify correlates of untreated pain. RESULTS: More than 65% of NH residents with cancer had any pain (28.3% daily, 37.3%