The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú recently published a call to action to address a critical shortage of neurologists relative to the demand for specialty neurological care. There are limited methods to characterize the burden of this unmet demand, particularly in populations facing SDoH-related barriers to care. 

In the preliminary arm of this scoping review, we completed an electronic search in PubMed. At least two reviewers screened each included article. Using a grounded theory approach, we identified strengths and weaknesses from each article, and developed unifying principles. 

64 out of 1419 screened articles were included in this review. We report on the distribution of neurological subspecialties, SDoH-related barriers, and geographic regions represented in the included articles. We additionally constructed a basic care pathway framework for patients seeking neurological care, and categorized included articles based on at which level of this care pathway they assessed gaps.