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Twelve patellofemoral disorders diagnosed by the GPs were\n identified. The non-specific diagnosis of \u2018anterior knee pain\u2019 (AKP) was\n by far the most common (APCPR, 37.2\/10 000). Other more specific\n diagnoses were rare by contrast, suggesting that specific patellofemoral\n disorders are rarely diagnosed in general practice (consultation\n prevalences, in order of most prevalent first: bursitis (7.8\/10 000),\n patellofemoral osteoarthritis (2.3\/10 000); APCPRs for the remaining\n nine diagnoses ranged between 0 and 1.6\/10 000). However, the use of\n alternative less anatomically specific diagnostic codes, such as for\n \u2018knee pain\u2019, may mean that our estimate of one-in-six is an\n underestimate of GPs\u2019 true attribution rates to patellofemoral joint\n disorders of people consulting them with knee pain. 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