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Aim: The neurological disease profile is different in adult and pediatric patients. There are a limited number of studies on demographic and diagnostic data distributions. This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the first 1,000 patients being admitted to a newly established pediatric neurology outpatient clinic. Materials and Methods: This study retrospectively analyzed the files of the first 1,000 patients who were admitted to a newly established pediatric neurology outpatient clinic of a tertiary university hospital. Age, gender, diagnosis, nationality, and social security information of the patients were recorded. Results: Five hundred sixty-one of the patients (56.1%) were male and 439 (43.9%) were female, with a mean age of 64±61 (1–216) months and 105.76±56.6 (1–216) months, respectively. The age groups with the highest and lowest number of cases were the 0–2 years age group (n=328, 32.8%) and the 16–18 years age group (n=77, 7.7%), respectively. Sixty of the patients (6%) were Syrian whereas 940 (94%) were Turkish. Only 848 patients (84.8%) had general health insurance. As for the diagnoses, epilepsy was observed to rank in first place (n=254, 25.4%), followed by healthy child examinations (n=240, 24%), and headache (n=139, 13.9%). Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study investigating and evaluating the patient profile of a newly established tertiary pediatric neurology outpatient clinic in detail. Although it may help predict the priorities of centers to be opened in the future, since it enables the patient profile to be predicted in advance, there is still a need for further studies on this subject.

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