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National Clinical Guideline Centre (UK). Varicose Veins in the Legs: The Diagnosis and Management of Varicose Veins. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2013 Jul. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 168.)
- ABI
Ankle brachial index. This is synonymous with ABPI
- ABPI
Ankle brachial pressure index
- AE
Adverse Events
- AVVQ
Aberdeen Varicose Vein Questionnaire.
- BMI
Body mass index
- CEAP
Clinical, Etiologic, Anatomic and Pathophysiologic – a system of grading the level of varicose veins with reference to the skin appearance, the cause of chronic venous insufficiency, the anatomical location of the affected veins and the pathology involved.
- CI
Confidence Interval
- CIVIQ
Chronic venous insufficiency questionnaire – a varicose veins-specific quality of life scale
- CS
Cross sectional
- CVD
chronic venous disease
- CVI
chronic venous insufficiency
- DVT
Deep vein thrombosis
- DVI
Deep venous insufficiency
- EQ-5D
EuroQol 5D – a generic quality of life assessment form
- EVLA
Endovenous laser ablation
- EVRF
Endovenous radiofrequency ablation
- FN
False negative
- FP
False positive
- FU
Follow-up
- GA
General Anaesthetic
- GDG
Guideline Development Group
- GRADE
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation
- GSV
Great saphenous vein
- HHD
Hand held Doppler
- HR
Hazard Ratio
- HRQL
Health Related Quality of Life
- HVVSS
Homburg Varicose Vein Severity Score. A measure of varicose vein severity based on patient reported symptoms, clinical findings and venous function/dysfunction assessed by the clinician.
- IQR
Interquartile Range
- ITT
Intention to treat
- LA
Laser ablation
- LASER
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
- LSV
Long saphenous vein – more commonly referred to as the Great Saphenous vein (GSV)
- MCS
Medical compression stockings
- MD
Mean difference
- MID
Minimum important difference. This refers to the smallest difference in a measure that would have a clinically relevant impact upon a patient.
- MTP
Mid-thigh perforator
- OR
Odds ratio – the ratio of odds of an outcome event across two groups being compared. An odds ratio is defined as the number with the outcome event divided by those without the outcome event.
- NSAIDS
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- PAD
Peripheral artery disease
- PE
Pulmonary embolism
- PI
Perforator Incompetence
- PIN
Perforate invagination stripping – a surgical technique used to strip superficial veins, such as the GSV.
- PICO
Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes (a framework for devising protocols for the systematic review of interventional studies)
- PROM
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
- PV
Popliteal vein
- SF-36
Short form – 36 (a generic quality of life questionnaire)
- SQOR-V
Specific quality of life and outcome response – venous. The SQOR-V is a validated patient related quality of life outcome for Chronic Venous Disease.
- QoL
Quality of life
- QUADAS
Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies
- RCT
Randomised Controlled Trial
- RFA
Radiofrequency ablation
- RR
Relative risk (also known as relative risk, which has the same meaning).
- RTW
Return to work
- Sd
Standard deviation
- SE
Standard error
- SEPS
Subfascial endoscopic perforator surgery
- SFJ
Sapheno-femoral junction
- SFV
Sapheno-femoral vein
- SPJ
Sapheno-popliteal junction
- SSV
small saphenous vein
- TN
True negative
- TP
True positive
- TP
True positive
- UGFS
Ultrasound Guided Foam Sclerotherapy
- US
ultrasound
- VAS
Visual Analogue Scale
- VCSS
Venous clinical severity score
- VEINES-QOL
Venous insufficiency epidemiological and economic study – a varicose veins-specific quality of life scale
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