Patient Satisfaction with Spanish Pain Centers: Observational Study with More than 3,000 Patients

Table 1

Baseline sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the patients.

	= 3,414
Women	2,239 (65.6)
Age	61.3 ± 14.4
Current pain (VAS)	7.4 ± 1.5
Referral from
Primary care	768 (22.5)
Rheumatology	284 (8.3)
Traumatology	1,387 (40.6)
Internal medicine	79 (2.3)
Neurosurgery	306 (9.0)
Rehabilitation	221 (6.5)
Surgery	73 (2.1)
Other	296 (8.7)
Living
Alone	425 (12.4)
With family member	2,878 (84.3)
Nursery home	71 (2.1)
Other	40 (1.2)
Care required from a third party	748 (22.0)
Ambulance use for medical visits	148 (4.3)
Working status
Able to work	801 (23.5)
Retired	1,672 (49.0)
Unable to work	452 (13.2)
Medical leave of absence	488 (14.3)
Pain origin
Somatic	2,681 (78.5)
Visceral	81 (2.4)
Neuropathic	1,996 (58.5)
Pain type
Arthrosis/arthritis	1,867 (55.6)
Hernia/disc pathology	1,435 (42.8)
Neuropathy	527 (15.7)
Osteoporosis	456 (13.6)
Myofascial pain syndrome	418 (12.5)
Other	126 (3.8)
Visceral pain	61 (1.8)
Vascular pain	62 (1.8)
Failed back surgery syndrome	47 (1.4)
Other postsurgical pains	37 (1.1)
Vertebral compression fracture	27 (0.8)
Other posttrauma pains	25 (0.7)
Current health status as compared to last 12 months
Better	126 (3.7)
Same	788 (23.1)
Worse	2,499 (73.2)

Multiple answer question. Data expressed as (%) or mean ± SD.