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evaluate nurses documented practice communicating pain people dementia hospital retrospective medical record review medical records retrieved four inpatient units district tertiary teaching hospital people aged 65 years documented dementia data extracted nurses documented pain assessment management pain frequency association patient selfreport pain scores cognition levels analgesics used hospitalization analysed using descriptive inferential statistics multivariate regression examined patient characteristics pain characteristics length hospital stay onehundred patient records met inclusion criteria 1 january 31 august 2017 sixtysix percent patients dementia pain documented least hospitalization 58 reported moderate severe pain intensity patients pain severity admission associated length hospital stay ninetythree percent nurses used selfreporting pain tool 7 used observational pain tool pain scores associated patients cognition level nurses pain reports analgesic management pain frequently occurs people dementia hospitalization fragmented pain reporting influences translation pain messages disproportionate pain tool application nonassociation pain scores analgesic management suggest potential knowledge gap among nurses practical use pain tools practice gap pain assessment management dementia care pain regularly assessed nurses implemented fifth vital sign people dementia hospitals however high frequency pain affects care outcomes areas improvement include nursing practice pain assessment management dementia care hospitals understanding usefulness pain tools efficacy pain scores communicating pain dementia care hospitals required