| ACR | American College of Rheumatology |
| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| CHERRIES | Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CME | Continuing medical education |
| EULAR | European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology |
| FM | Fibromyalgia |
| NSAID | Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SNRI | Serotonin–noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor |
| SSRI | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| VIF | Variance inflation factor |