A recent article published in Pain Medicine featured a translational pain management intervention for older adults. The intervention titled Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) was “designed to promote the adoption of evidence-based pain practices for older adults with cancer in community-based hospices.” The intervention employed a randomized controlled trial and was implemented in 16 mid-western hospices. The authors collected and analyzed qualitative focus group data from the hospice staff. The authors noted challenges implementing the program at certain sites and concluded that “future research should explore intervention approaches that rely less on research team members and can be more fully implemented by organizational staff.”
