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Context • Patients with pancreatic cancer (PC) at a late stage often suffer from severe abdominal pain due to the invasion of celiac plexus, and the analgesics they receive often have intolerable side effects. Endoscopic, ultrasoundguided, celiac plexus neurolysis (EUS-guided CPN) can have a good therapeutic effect. Objective • The study intended to evaluate the ability of two nursing cooperation patterns to reduce patients’ pain, decrease operation times, increase operational efficiency, and increase nurses’ satisfaction, for patients with advanced PC and abdominal pain who received EUS-guided CPN. Design • The research team designed a retrospective controlled study. Setting • The study took place at the Shenzhen People’s Hospital of the Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University in Shenzhen, China, and at the Changhai Hospital of the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China. Participants • Participants were 40 patients with advanced PC who received EUS-guided CPN at one of the two hospitals between January 2019 and January 2020. Intervention • Twenty participants at Changhai Hospital received the traditional nursing cooperation pattern and became the control group, and 20 participants at the Shenzhen People’s Hospital received the new nursing cooperation pattern and became the intervention group. Outcome Measures • The study measured clinical data, nursing measures, diagnostic significance, and key points for the two patterns as well as compared the effects of the new nursing cooperation method to that of traditional nursing. If the measurement data met the requirements for normality, the team used the two independent sample t-test for the intergroup comparisons. If normality wasn’t satisfied, the team used medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs) for expression and the rank sum test for the intergroup comparisons. Counting data were expressed using the constituent ratio, and team used the chi-square test for comparisons between groups. P < .05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results • The operations were successful, and no complications occurred. No significant difference existed in the pain scores between the control group and the intervention group (P>.05), while a significant difference occurred in the nurses’ operation times and satisfaction. Not only were the scores for operation times for the control group (97) and the intervention group (59) significantly different, but also the nurses’ satisfaction was significantly higher for the intervention group postintervention, at 83.35 ± 5.25, than for the control group, at 62.25 ± 8.18 (P < .001). Such a new nursing cooperation method could assist in patient’s rehabilitation and increase nurses’ satisfaction. Conclusions • The new nursing cooperation method for patients with advanced PC and abdominal pain undergoing EUS-guided CPN can reduce operation time and improve nurses’ satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]