Acronyms/Abbreviations

ABPN American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

ACCME Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

AD Alzheimer’s disease

AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AIMS Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale

APA American Psychiatric Association

BEHAVE-AD Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease

BMI Body mass index

BPRS Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

BPSD Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

CATIE-AD Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness for Alzheimer’s Disease

CGI Clinical Global Impressions

CGI-C Clinical Global Impression of Change

CI Confidence interval

CMAI Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory

CVA Cerebrovascular accident

DLB Dementia with Lewy body

DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition

DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition

EPS Extrapyramidal symptoms

FAST Functional assessment staging

FGA First-generation antipsychotic

GRADE Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation

HR Hazard ratio

ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision

IR Immediate release

IRR Incidence rate ratio

ITT Intention to treat

MDS Minimum data set

MI Myocardial infarction

MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination

NC Not calculated

NIA National Institute on Aging

NIMH National Institute of Mental Health

NINCDS/ADRDA National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association

NNH Number needed to harm

NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory

NPI-NH or NPI/NH Neuropsychiatric Inventory—Nursing Home

NPI-Q Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire

NQF National Quality Forum

NS Not significant

OR Odds ratio

PANSS-EC Positive and Negative Symptom Scale—Excitement Component

PICOTS Patient population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, Timing, Setting

QTc Corrected QT interval

RCT Randomized controlled trial

RR Rate ratio

SAS Simpson-Angus Scale

SD Standard deviation

SGA Second-generation antipsychotic

SIB Severe Impairment Battery

SMD Standardized mean difference

TD Tardive dyskinesia

TIA Transient ischemic attack

VTE Venous thromboembolism

XR Extended release