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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

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Go to The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics                 to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients With Dementia
The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients With Dementia
May 2016
©American Psychiatric Association

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