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BACKGROUND: Agitation is a common and distressing symptom in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Cholinesterase inhibitors improve cognitive outcomes in such patients, but the benefits of these drugs for behavioral disturbances are unclear. METHODS: We randomly assigned 272 patients with Alzheimer's disease who had clinically significant agitation and no response to a brief psychosocial treatment program to receive 10 mg of donepezil per day (128 patients) or placebo (131 patients) for 12 week...
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- 10.1056/nejmoa066583
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- Publisher:
- Massachusetts Medical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- The New England journal of medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 357
- Issue:
- 14
- Pages:
- 1382-1392
- Publication date:
- 2007-10-05
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1533-4406
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0028-4793
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uuid:7c793175-5022-4a6a-be4e-43efe035946e
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60824
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- From New England Journal of Medicine, Robert J. Howard, Edmund Juszczak, Clive G. Ballard, Peter Bentham, Richard G. Brown, Roger Bullock, Alistair S. Burns, Clive Holmes, Robin Jacoby, Tony Johnson, Martin Knapp, James Lindesay, John T. O'Brien, Gordon Wilcock, Cornelius Katona, Roy W. Jones, Julia DeCesare, Michaela Rodger, Donepezil for the Treatment of Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease, 357, 1382-1392. Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.
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Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease.
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