Clinical Characteristics, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Previous Therapeutic Management of Patients with Uncontrolled Neuropathic Pain Referred to Pain Clinics

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics for the overall simple and referring specialty.

Characteristic	Overall 𝑁=728	Primary care 𝑁=118	Traumatology 𝑁=242	Neurology 𝑁=56	Neurosurgery 𝑁=58	Rehabilitation 𝑁=36	Rheumatology 𝑁=32	Other surgeries 𝑁=62	Other specialties 𝑁=102
Age, mean ± SD	57.2±15.2	63.3±13.6	56.2±14.2	54.9±14.9	54.3±12.0	53.0±14.8	55.5± 13.1	57.3±13.7	61.5±13.5
Sex (female), %	60.6	56.3	65.8	60.7	63.0	51.4	78.1	59.7	51.0
BMI, %
Underweight	1.6	0.0	1.5	8.5	0.0	3.0	6.9	0.0	0.0
Normal	34.4	31.8	31.2	36.2	36.4	39.4	27.6	43.1	40.2
Overweight   Obesity I	43.9	51.4	43.7	38.3	47.7	36.4	41.4	37.3	45.1
Obesity II	16.7	15.0	19.6	12.8	11.4	18.2	17.2	17.6	11.0
Obesity III	2.1	0.9	2.5	4.3	2.3	0.0	3.4	2.0	2.4
Obesity IV	1.3	0.9	1.5	0.0	2.3	3.0	3.4	0.0	1.2

BMI: body mass index; SD: standard deviation.