Table 1.

Basic data: Comparison of the surveys of 1991 and 2006

	1991	2006
Number of practices (n)	5	6
Number of patients (N)	900	1201
women (n/%)	540/59.9	741/61.7
men (n/%)	360/40.1	460/38.3
mean age total (in years)	48.6	53.4
Patients with acute pain (n/%)	228/25.3	265/22.1
Patients with chronic pain (n/%)	328/36.4	480/40.0
women (n/%)	219/66.8	324/67.5
men (n/%)	109/33.2	156/32.5
mean age total (in years)	-	58.4
Actual consultation due to pain (n/%)	453/50.3**	510/42,5**
Actual consultation due to acute pain (n/%)	228/25.3**	227/18.9**
Actual consultation due to chronic pain (n/%)	225/25.0	283/23.6

- missing data; ** p < 0.001