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Table 1 Details of included studies

From: Should evoked potential monitoring be used in degenerative cervical spine surgery? A systematic review

Study

Year

Type of study

Level of evidence

No. of recruited patients

M

F

Type of monitoring

Mean age at intervention (years)

Tot = 1683

Tot = 576

Tot = 383

Av = 240.43

Av = 115.2

Av = 76.6

–

Av = 57.8

SD = 152.03

SD = 78.09

SD = 70.87

–

SD = 5.2

Plata Bello et al.

2015

CS

IV

75

53

22

TcMEP

SSEP

60

Appel et al.

2017

CS

IV

381

–

–

TcMEP

–

Hilibrand et al.

2004

PCS

II

427

242

185

TcMEP

SSEP

–

Sakaki et al.

2012

CS

IV

357

–

–

TcMEP

–

Oya et al.

2017

RCS

IV

135

91

40

MEP

SSEP

62

Garcia et al.

2010

RCS

IV

80

56

24

SSEP

61

Xu et al.

2011

RCS

IV

57

–

–

TcMEP

SSEP

48

Eggspuehler et al.

2007

CS

IV

246

134

112

SSEP

58

  1. M male, F female, Av average, SD standard deviation, RCS retrospective case study, PCS prospective case study, tcMEP transcranial motor evoked potential, SSEP somatosensory evoked potential, MIOM multimodal intraoperative monitoring