3.1 General information
There were 1618 cases of urgent neurological in-hospital consultations in the 4-year period: 573 cases in 2014, 406 in 2015, 382 in 2016, and 257 in 2017. Among them, 136 cases had been consulted at least twice; these were regarded as 1 case in the data. Thus, 1437 cases were included in the final analysis, among which 54.6% were male and 45.4% were female. The average age was 60.3 years (range: 9–103).