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. 2016 Sep-Oct;31(5):381–388. doi: 10.5935/1678-9741.20160081
Abbreviations, acronyms & symbols
6MWT = Six-minute walk test
ATS = American Thoracic Society
FAPITEC/SE = Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa e à Inovação
  Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe, Brasil
IBECS = Spanish Bibliographic Index on Health Sciences
LILACS = Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences
PAHO = Collection of the Pan American Health Organization
PRISMA = Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
  and Meta-Analyses
SciELO = Scientific Electronic Library Online
VHL = Virtual Health Library
WHO = World Health Organization