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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Abbreviations and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13059.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Abbreviations and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13059.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Abbreviations and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13059.
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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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Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines.

Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process.

In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain.

Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

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