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

Table 9

Disability (WHO-DAS II) by 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
WHO-DAS II H1-H5
Overall health (Bad/very bad), %	48.9	44.9	49.6	52.7	56.6	45.7	53.5	36.4	51.0
Interference with life  (Severe/extreme), %	45.3	36.3	49.3	51.0	47.0	44.1	50.0	31.5	46.8
Duration of difficulties (days),  mean ± SD	22.4±9.9	20.29±11.07	23.00±9.21	21.11±9.97	22.10±10.02	25.21±8.06	22.07±7.62	19.89±11.95	23.55±9.95
Days totally unable to carry out   usual activities/work, mean ± SD	14.7±11.7	11.71±11.54	16.23±11.18	13.83±11.51	15.04±11.29	16.35±12.54	14.90±11.54	13.47±12.54	14.44±12.50
Days cutting back or reducing   usual activities/work	19.2±11.1	15.76±12.04	20.65±10.29	17.00±11.46	20.02±10.51	20.47±11.34	19.37±10.33	17.72±11.75	20.13±11.33
WHO-DAS II dimensions, mean ± SD
Understanding and  communicating	40.0±24.4	37.16±23.79	40.12±23.69	44.10±26.24	40.80±25.38	39.64±22.17	50.83±19.40	35.45±26.11	38.82±25.94
Getting around	57.5±30.4	47.18±31.97	64.96±26.75	51.89±32.74	62.74±29.26	67.50±31.24	66.25±22.06	48.41±29.07	48.05±32.41
Self-care	38.6±26.9	30.33±24.23	42.49±25.34	38.99±31.17	38.99±22.63	45.71±23.69	39.44±28.19	35.45±29.58	35.79±30.46
Getting along with people	33.5±28.4	30.68±28.87	34.64±27.10	35.85±30.43	34.91±28.73	28.57±25.10	43.33±25.37	28.18±27.24	33.97±31.79
Life activities, household	67.2±30.5	58.11±34.73	72.54±26.25	66.04±33.65	70.75±26.74	67.14±26.96	75.00±25.43	57.27±31.06	63.68±33.77
Life activities, work	66.2±33.1	55.86±36.14	72.87±31.00	63.21±32.74	74.53±27.07	61.43±34.48	63.79±26.38	60.19±35.53	63.16±35.14
Participation in society	60.9±23.1	56.31±24.21	62.39±22.15	63.52±22.89	62.58±23.55	57.62±19.11	68.89±17.36	52.42±28.04	62.33±22.72

SD: standard deviation; WHO-DAS II: World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II.