We read the systematic review titled “Diagnostic utility of different types of somatosensory evoked potential changes in pediatric idiopathic scoliosis correction surgery ” by Gorijala et al. [1] with great interest. It is an interesting article presenting evidence in support of the use of intraoperative neuromonitoring during deformity corrections of patients with idiopathic scoliosis. The study concludes that SSEP (somatosensory evoked potential) to be an effective method for intraoperative neuromonitoring. They showed that SSEP has high specificity but low sensitivity in predicting postoperative neurodeficit in the patients undergoing deformity correction [2].

We observed there was a mismatch between the protocol registered with prospero (CRD42022334121) and the article in terms of the inclusion criterions. The protocol mentioned the age group of the patients <18 years for the study to be eligible while the study has taken the patients’ age <21 years as the eligibility criteria. The title of the article seems misplaced because of the cut off age. The authors have searched only two databases (PubMed and Web of Science) to find 884 studies while including other databases like Scopus and Embase will certainly yield more number of related studies. There is a mismatch in presented data in columns 8 and 9 of Table 2.