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We sought to characterize counseling in routine neurologic care by determining the proportion of visits with documented counseling, describe forms of counseling, and investigate factors that predict documentation of counseling.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We performed a cross-sectional study via retrospective chart reviews of 994 neurologic subspeciality outpatient encounters at a tertiary academic medical center from September 2023 to October 2023. The main outcome of this analysis was documented counseling (Yes\/No) which was established via protocol-driven pre-specified chart review with assessment of abstraction reliability. Secondary outcomes included lifestyle modification (e.g., exercise, sleep, diet, alcohol, safety) and medication\/disease specific education counseling (e.g., headache, seizure, medication, cognitive, stroke). We used a multivariable generalized estimating equations regression model with clustering at the provider level to compare how patient counseling varied across provider subspecialities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Out of 994 outpatient encounters, 38% (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 374) of visits had any documented counseling. Counseling on medication\/disease specific education (28%,\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 276) was more common than on lifestyle education (6%,\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 60). The neurologic subspecialties with highest percentage of documented counseling were headache (73%), epilepsy (51%), and stroke (41%) while the neurologic subspecialties with the lowest percentage of any documented patient counseling were neuromuscular (19%), cognitive (15%), and multiple sclerosis (11%). Headache subspecialists were the only provider group to have increased odds of counseling (OR = 3.6, CI: 1.3\u20139.9) compared to general neurologists, while cognitive and multiple sclerosis subspecialists had 73% (CI: 42%\u221278%) and 72% (CI: 25%\u221289%) lower odds of documenting any counseling. Patient demographics were not statistically significantly associated with frequency of counseling.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our study demonstrated significant variability in frequency and types of counseling documented across neurologic outpatient encounters and between subspecialists. The findings suggest that patient counseling may be undocumented and\/or under-employed in certain fields. Future multi-centered studies are needed to understand documentation practices, actual performance of counseling relative to documentation, and patient clinical outcomes after participating in counseling.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2026.1884883","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]],"date-time":"2026-10-09T04:26:22Z","timestamp":1791519982000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Patient counseling across neurologic subspecialties\u2014a single academic center study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Raed","family":"Hailat","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, The Ohio State University","place":["Columbus, OH, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benjamin","family":"Templeton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, 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