| μg |
microgram |
| AHRQ |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| BMI |
body mass index |
| BSSI |
Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation |
| CADTH |
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health |
| CI |
confidence interval |
| CMS |
Constant Murley shoulder score |
| CPSB |
chronic post-surgical back pain |
| CRPS |
chronic regional pain syndrome |
| CT |
computed tomography |
| DREZC |
dorsal root entry zone complex |
| DSM-IV |
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition |
| FPM |
Faculty of Pain Medicine |
| GBP |
Great Britain Pounds |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| GRADE |
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation |
| h |
hour |
| HIS |
Healthcare Improvement Scotland |
| HIV |
human immunodeficiency virus |
| HTA |
health technology assessment |
| I$ |
international dollars |
| ICER |
incremental cost-effectiveness ratio |
| IMMPACT |
initiative on methods, measurement and pain assessment in clinical trials |
| IPM-QRB |
interventional pain management techniques – quality appraisal of reliability and risk of bias assessment |
| IPM-QRBNR |
interventional pain management techniques – quality appraisal of reliability and risk of bias assessment non-randomised studies |
| IQR |
interquartile range |
| ISIS |
International Spine Intervention Society |
| IV |
intravenous |
| kg |
kilogram |
| LED |
light-emitting diodes |
| MCID |
minimum clinically important difference |
| MD |
mean difference |
| mg |
milligram |
| MINORS |
methodological index for non-randomised studies |
| ml |
millilitres |
| NA |
not applicable |
| NHS |
National Health Service |
| NICE |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
| NMA |
network meta-analysis |
| NRS |
numerical rating scale |
| OR |
odds ratio |
| PRF-DRG |
pulsed radiofrequency – dorsal root ganglia |
| QALY |
quality-adjusted life-year |
| RCT |
randomised controlled trial |
| RFA |
radiofrequency ablation |
| RF-FC |
radiofrequency - facet capsule |
| ROBONS-I |
risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions |
| RR |
relative risk |
| SD |
standard deviation |
| SEK |
Swedish krona |
| SHTG |
Scottish Health Technologies Group |
| SIGN |
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
| SIMD |
Scottish index of multiple deprivation |
| SMD |
standardised mean difference |
| SPADI |
shoulder pain and disability index |
| STROBE |
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| TENS |
transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| THB |
Thai Bhat |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| US/USA |
United States of America |
| VAS |
visual analogue scale |
| WMD |
weighted mean difference |
| WOMAC |
western Ontario and McMaster universities osteoarthritis index |
Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG)
