- 2D
two-dimensional
- AF
atrial fibrillation
- AMI
acute myocardial infarction
- AR
aortic regurgitation
- AV
atrioventricular
- BSE
British Society of Echocardiography
- CAF
chronic atrial fibrillation
- CARAF
Canadian Registry of Atrial Fibrillation
- CEAF
cost-effectiveness acceptability frontier
- CHA2DS2-VASc
congestive heart failure, hypertension, age ≥ 75 years (doubled), diabetes, stroke (doubled), vascular disease, age 65–74 years, and sex category (female)
- CHADS2
cardiac failure, hypertension, age, diabetes, stroke doubled
- CHF
congestive heart failure
- CI
confidence interval
- CrI
credible interval
- CT
computerised tomography
- DES
discrete event simulation
- DM
diabetes mellitus
- ECG
electrocardiography
- ESC
European Society of Cardiology
- EVPI
expected value of perfect information
- EVPPI
expected value of partial perfect information
- FN
false-negative
- FP
false-positive
- GI
gastrointestinal
- GOS
Glasgow Outcome Scale
- GP
general practitioner
- HR
hazard ratio
- HRG
Healthcare Resource Group
- ICER
incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
- ICH
intracranial haemorrhage
- ICM
ischaemic cardiomyopathy
- INR
international normalised ratio
- LA
left atrial
- LAA
left atrial appendage
- LAD
left atrial diameter
- LV
left ventricular
- M-mode
motion-mode echocardiography
- MAICER
maximum acceptable incremental cost effectiveness ratio
- MI
myocardial infarction
- MR
mitral regurgitation
- MRI
magnetic resonance imaging
- mRS
modifed Rankin Scale
- MVP
mitral valve prolapse
- NCC-CC
National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions
- NICE
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NSF
National Service Framework
- OAC
oral anticoagulant
- OR
odds ratio
- PE
pulmonary embolism
- PRISMA
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
- PSA
probabilistic sensitivity analysis
- QALY
quality-adjusted life-year
- QUADAS
quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
- RA
right atrial
- RAA
right atrial appendage
- RCT
randomised controlled trial
- RE-LY
Randomized Evaluation of Long-Term Anticoagulation Therapy
- RR
relative risk
- RV
right ventricular
- SPAF
Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
- STROBE
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology
- TIA
transient ischaemic attack
- TN
true-negative
- TOE
transoesophageal echocardiography
- TP
true-positive
- TTE
transthoracic echocardiography
- WoS
Web of Science
All abbreviations that have been used in this report are listed here unless the abbreviation is well known (e.g. NHS), or it has been used only once, or it is a non-standard abbreviation used only in figures/tables/appendices, in which case the abbreviation is defined in the figure legend or in the notes at the end of the table.
