Research Article

Knee Pain as the Reason for Encounter in General Practice

Table 1

Patient distribution (pd) and consultation prevalence (cp) of knee pain in different age groups in the German SESAM 2 study and the Dutch Transition Project regarding new and previously known knee pain.

Age (years) SESAM 2 
= 127
DTP (new) 
= 5,430
DTP (known) 
= 2,234
pd (%)cp (%) pd (%)cp (%) pd (%)cp (%)

0–400.00.0280.50.220.1<0.1
5–1410.80.34608.53.1863.80.5
15–241411.01.682315.25.028312.71.7
25–442318.11.3169831.33.757025.51.2
45–644233.11.4140425.94.261627.61.8
65–742620.51.564511.94.035916.12.2
75+2116.51.83726.92.531814.22.1

Total1271001.454301003.622341001.4

new: newly occurred knee pain, known: previously known knee pain.
pd: patient distribution, refers to the group of knee pain patients.
cp: consultation prevalence, refers to all patients of the same age group within the study population.