| BARFs | Baxter Retching Faces |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CINV | Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting |
| EO | Essential oil |
| GRADEs | Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations |
| hCG | Human chorionic gonadotropin |
| MCID | Minimal clinically important difference |
| MD | Mean difference |
| NV | Nausea and vomiting |
| NVP | Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy |
| PONV | Postoperative nausea and vomiting |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PUQE | Pregnancy Unique Quantification of Emesis/Nausea |
| RCT | Randomized controlled trial |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SE | Standard error |
| SEM | Standard error of the mean |
| SMD | Standardized mean difference |
| VAS | Visual analogue scale |