Most patients with neuropathic pain symptoms present and are managed in primary care,
with only a minority being referred for specialist clinical assessment and diagnoses.
Previous reviews have focused mainly on specific neuropathic pain conditions based in
specialist settings. This is the first systematic review of epidemiological studies of
neuropathic pain in the general population. Electronic databases were searched from
January 1966 to December 2012, and studies were included where the main focus was on …