Pain treatment for nursing home residents differs according to cognitive state – a cross-sectional study

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Table 3 Pain prevalence and ‘red diagnoses’ – descriptive statistics and group differences

Pain prevalence and ‘Red Diagnoses’
	Descriptive statistics				Group differences
Groups	All	CUS^a	CI-V^b	CI-NV^c	CUS vs. CI-V	CUS vs. CI-NV	CI-V vs. CI-NV
	%	%	%	%	Diff % (±FR)	Diff % (±FR)	Diff % (±FR)
Pain prevalence	72.6	66.4	81.0	80.3	14.6 (±9.2) **	13.9 (±11.3) *	−0.7 (±12.0) n.s.
At least 1 ‘Red Diagnosis’	52.9	58.7	43.5	48.5	−15.2 (±9.2) **	−10.2 (±13.6) n.s.	5.0 (±5.0) n.s.

**p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, n.s. not significant, Diff Group difference, FR Fluctuation range of 95 % confidence interval
^a cognitively unimpaired/slightly impaired, ^b cognitively moderately to severely impaired, verbally communicating, ^c cognitively moderately to severely impaired, not verbally communicating

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