Table 3 Detailed description of the most common disease categories seen at the neurology outpatient clinic

Seizures/epilepsy

Patients who have suffered a seizure or carry the diagnosis of epilepsy

Infectious

Patients whose primary presentation was related to an underlying infection of the nervous system such as cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmic encephalitis, or cerebral malaria

Headache/cephalgias

Primary headache disorders such as tension, migraine, and cluster headaches or some related disorder

Neuromuscular

Disorders of the neuromuscular junction, muscle, or motor neuron disease

Movement disorders

Patients with tremor, Parkinson’s disease, ataxia or other related disorders

Neuropathy/radiculopathy

A heterogenous group of peripheral nervous system disorders including diabetic neuropathy, AIDP/CIDP, plexopathies, and radiculopathies

Cerebrovascular disease

Patients with ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and/or transient ischemic attacks

Myelopathy

A broad category that included patients with obvious signs of spinal cord dysfunction such as leg weakness, bowel/bladder symptoms, or sensory level without any further details to clarify the diagnosis

Dementia/neurodegenerative

Patients with AIDS–Dementia Complex, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and/or cerebellar degeneration

Demyelinating

It was restricted to the central nervous system and included cerebral demyelination, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and transverse myelitis

Encephalopathy

A cognitive dysfunction of unknown origin whose time course fit an acute/subacute confusional state

Diagnosis unclear

When it was unclear what a patient had, or if they could not be placed into a diagnostic category with great certainty

Other conditions

If patients had a condition that represented < 1% of the study population