| AGREE | Appraisal of Guidelines, REsearch and Evaluation |
| BMJ | British Medical Journal |
| CDSR | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |
| CPG | Clinical Practice Guidelines |
| CQI | Continuous quality improvement |
| CRD | Centre for Reviews and Dissemination |
| DARE | Cochrane Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects |
| EBM | Evidenced-Based Medicine |
| GCP | Good Clinical Practice |
| HCM | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
| ICTRP | The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform |
| IHI | Institute of Healthcare Improvement |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| MLA | Medical Library Association |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NLM | National Library of Medicine |
| PDSA | Plan Do Study Act |
| PICO | Patients’ Intervention Comparison Outcome |
| PMC | PubMed Central |
| REB | Research Ethics Board |
| U.S. | United States |
| UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UNCRC | United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| WHO | World Health Organization |