| TIA | Transient Ischemic Attack |
| CVA | Cerebrovascular Accident |
| ED | Emergency Department |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| DWI | Diffusion-Weighted Imaging |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| SROC | Summary Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| NMA | Network Meta-Analysis |
| CrI | Credible Interval |
| ABCD | Age, Blood pressure, Clinical features, Duration of symptoms |
| ABCD2 | Age, Blood pressure, Clinical features, Duration of symptoms, Diabetes |
| ABCD3 | ABCD2 plus Dual TIA events (≥2 in 7 days), and imaging |
| ABCD3-I | ABCD3 plus Imaging (carotid stenosis and DWI positivity) |
| ESRS | Essen Stroke Risk Score |
| SPI-II | Stroke Prognosis Instrument II |
| QUIPS | Quality in Prognostic Studies |
| CHARMS | Checklist for Critical Appraisal and Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews of Prediction Modelling Studies |
| TP | True Positive |
| FP | False Positive |
| TN | True Negative |
| FN | False Negative |
| PRISMA-NMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Network Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |