Pain as a reason to visit the doctor: a study in Finnish primary health care
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- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in PAIN®
- Vol. 89 (2) , 175-180
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(00)00361-4
Abstract
Collected the data, comprising 5646 patient visits. Pain was identified as the reason for 2237 (40%) of the visits. The most common localizations were in the lower back, abdomen and head. One-fifth of the pain patients had experienced pain for over six months. Analysis of the diagnoses revealed half of the pains to be musculoskeletal. Patients experienced considerable limitations in various activities of life due to pain. A quarter of the pain patients of active working age received sick leave. Our results confirm that pain is a major primary health care problem, which has an enormous impact on public health....Keywords
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