An integrated model of care for neurological infections: the first six years of referrals to a specialist service at a university teaching hospital in Northwest England

Table 2 Clinical presentation of 242 patients with suspected neurological infectious disease, divided according to confirmed neurological infection or other diagnosis

	Neurological infectious disease (n = 150)	Other diagnosis (n = 91)	p value
Fever	33 (22 %)	24 (26 %)	0.44
Headache	45 (30 %)	42 (46 %)	0.01
Meningism	53 (35 %)	19 (21 %)	0.02
Altered sensorium	52 (35 %)	15 (16 %)	0.002
Seizures	13 (9 %)	14 (15 %)	0.14
Focal deficit	11 (7 %)	9 (10 %)	0.48
Peripheral nerve lesion	10 (7 %)	9 (10 %)	0.46
Fever + abnormal neurological finding ^a	23 (15 %)	6 (7 %)	0.06
Headache + abnormal neurological finding ^a	16 (11 %)	7 (8 %)	0.51
Fever + headache + abnormal neurological finding ^a	8 (5 %)	0	0.026

Data represent the number of patients for each individual clinical finding, and patients may be counted more than once
^a Abnormal neurological finding is any of: altered sensorium, seizures or focal neurological signs. These groupings count each individual patient once only

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