ACA Affordable Care Act
ACCP American College of Chest Physicians
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AIM African Index Medicus
ASD autism spectrum disorder
C2-SPECTR Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological, Educational, & Criminological Trials Register
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CENTRAL Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
CER comparative effectiveness research
CI confidence interval
CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
CMSG Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group
COI conflict of interest
CONSORT Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
CPCG Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group
CPG clinical practice guideline
CPP chronic pelvic pain
CRD Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
DERP Drug Effectiveness Review Project
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
ACA Affordable Care Act
ACCP American College of Chest Physicians
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AIM African Index Medicus
ASD autism spectrum disorder
C2-SPECTR Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological,
Educational, & Criminological Trials Register
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CENTRAL Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
CER comparative effectiveness research
CI confidence interval
CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Literature
CMSG Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group
COI conflict of interest
CONSORT Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
CPCG Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group
CPG clinical practice guideline
CPP chronic pelvic pain
CRD Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
DERP Drug Effectiveness Review Project
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236 FINDING WHAT WORKS IN HEALTH CARE
EHC Effective Health Care Program
EPC Evidence-based Practice Center
EPICOT Evidence, Population, Intervention, Comparison,
Outcomes, and Time
EQUATOR Enhancing Quality and Transparency of Health
Research
FDA Food and Drug Administration
GRADE Grading of Recommendations Assessment,
Development, and Evaluation
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
ICMJE International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors
IOM Institute of Medicine
KDIGO National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Disease:
Improving Global Outcomes
LILACS Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences
Literature
LOE languages other than English
MOOSE Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in
Epidemiology
NDA New Drug Application
NHS National Health Service (UK)
NICE National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence (UK)
NIH National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
NKF National Kidney Foundation
NSAIDs nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
OpenSIGLE System for Information on Grey Literature in
Europe
PCORI Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PICO(TS) population, intervention, comparator, and outcome
(timing, and study design or setting)
PQDT ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database
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APPENDIX A
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Analyses
QUOROM Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses
RCT randomized controlled trial
RR risk ratio
SR systematic review
TBI traumatic brain injury
USPSTF U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
WHO World Health Organization
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