. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 7.

Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2019 Oct 21;28(7):3061–3072. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-05074-8

Table 2.

Medication therapy for pain management by type, overall, by cancer history, and level of pain interference (unadjusted)

	Overall		By cancer history					By level of pain interference
			Cancer		No Cancer			Severe		Moderate		Mild/none
	N	%	N	%	N	%	p value^b	N	%	N	%	N	%	p value
By type^a
Any pain medication	3361	21.5	2048	22.5	1313	20.1	< 0.001	1475	44.4	1412	19.6	474	9.3	< 0.001
Opioid	1811	11.6	1195	13.1	616	9.5	< 0.001	983	29.6	646	9.0	182	3.6	< 0.001
Non-opioid analgesic	2663	17.0	1635	18.0	1028	15.8	< 0.001	1206	36.3	1098	15.3	359	7.0	< 0.001
Adjuvant pain medications	2475	15.8	1499	16.5	976	15.0	0.01	953	28.7	1068	14.8	454	8.9	< 0.001

Categories not mutually exclusive. Ns may sum to > 100%

p values reported for chi-squared comparison of medication use rates by cancer history and pain interference

Source: SEER-MHOS-Part D linked data, 2008–2012