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Appropriate cancer pain documentation is one of the quality measures in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI). MedStar Washington Cancer Institute has participated in QOPI since 2008, and documenting a plan of care for moderate to severe pain (which was defined as a pain score of ≥ 4 on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst) was identified as an area for improvement.We undertook a structured approach to improve documentation of the plan of care for moderate/severe pain with support from ASCO's Quality Training Program. Our team used standard plan-do-study-act (PDSA) methodology to achieve our goal of 90% documentation. We used a statistical process control chart (p chart) to determine whether our process was under control and to monitor the improvement in the documentation of pain management.The baseline rate of a documented plan of care for pain was 70%. In January 2014, we implemented action plans including an electronic health record trigger for a pain score of ≥ 4, education for fellows and midlevel providers, and establishment of a faculty consensus on documenting management of pain unrelated to cancer. After these interventions, the pain documentation rate improved to 90%.After one cycle of PDSA, we achieved our goal of a 90% pain documentation rate. To sustain our project, we continued to monitor the pain documentation rate quarterly in 2014 and continue the process of education and orientation to new staff, rotating residents, and fellows.

e20700 Background: MWCI has participated in Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) since 2008. Adherence to pain assessment and intensity documentation was high, but lower in plan of care for moderate/severe pain documentation (69%, compared to QOPI aggregate of 79%) during the Fall 2011 round. One potential explanation for the discrepancy was lack of communication between the nursing staff assessing the pain and the physician treating pain. We hypothesized that the use of pain card can improve the communication between nurses and doctors, as well as prompt physicians to document the plan of care for moderate/severe pain. Methods: MWCI created a team of physicians, nurses, quality resources and administrative staff in December 2011. We abstracted up to 10 patients charts per oncologist for those patientswho reported moderate to severe pain (pain score of more than 3 of 10 on numeric rating scale) each quarter during 2012.We used data for quarter 1 and 2 as a baseline. We implemented the use of pain card by nurses to report pain for these patients to the physician in quarter 3 and 4. Chi square test was used to compare documentation rate in the first two quarters and last two quarters. Results: The total number of charts evaluated, pain documentation as well as confidence intervals for each quarter are shown in the Table. Our results show significant improvement in pain documentation by physician in last two quarters compared to first two quarters (p =0.0007). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates pain card improved communication between nurse and physician resulting improved documentation of pain by physician. [Table: see text]