Table 1.
Percentage of residents at each level of cognitive impairment who were prescribed and given opioid and non-opioid analgesics over the previous 24 hours.
Analgesic provision | Level of cognitive impairment | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
None | Mild | Moderate | Severe | |
Non-opioid prescribed | 68.2 | 75.0 | 35.5 | 28.6 |
Non-opioid administered | 54.3 | 50.0 | 22.6 | 11.6 |
Opioid prescribed | 40.9 | 4.2 | 6.5 | 7.1 |
Opioid administered | 36.4 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 7.1 |