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For the second time in the past 3 years, the EU-US CTAD Task Force addressed challenges related to designing clinical trials for agitation in dementia, which is one of the most disruptive aspects of the condition for both patients and caregivers. Six recommendations emerged from the Task Force meeting: 1 – Operationalizing agitation criteria established by the IPA; 2 – Combining clinician- and caregiver-derived outcomes as primary outcome measures; 3 – Using global ratings to define clinically meaningful effects and power studies; 4 – Improving the accuracy of caregiver reports by better training and education of caregivers; 5 – Employing emerging technologies to collect near real-time behavioral data; and 6 – Utilizing innovative trial designs and increasing the use of biomarkers to maximize the productivity of clinical trials for neuropsychiatric symptoms.
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E.U./U.S. CTAD TASK FORCE: Susan Abushakra (Framingham); Joan Amatniek (Princeton); Sandrine Andrieu (Toulouse); Randall Bateman (Saint Louis); Joanne Bell (Wilmington); Gene Bowman (Lausanne); Sasha Bozeat (Utrecht); Samantha Budd Haeberlein (Cambridge); Marc Cantillon (Livingston); Marither Chuidian (Aliso Viejo); Doina Cosma-Roman (Aliso Viejo); Anne De Jong-Laird (Wexham); Rachelle Doody (Basel); Sanjay Dubé (Aliso Viejo); Michael Egan (North Wales); Laura Eggermont (Utrecht); Phyllis Ferrell (Indianapolis); Erin Foff (Princeton); Terence Fullerton (New York); Sylvie Gouttefangeas (Suresnes); Michael Grundman (San Diego); David Hewitt (Wilmington); Carole Ho (South San Francisco); Patrick Kesslak (Princeton); Valérie Legrand (Nanterre), Stefan Lind (Valby); Richard Margolin (New York); Thomas Megerian (Aliso Viejo); Annette Merdes (Munich); David Michelson (North Wales); Mark Mintun (Philadelphia); Tina Olsson (Cambridge); Ronald Petersen (Rochester); Jana Podhorna (Ingelheim am Rhein); Stephane Pollentier (Ingelheim am Rhein); Rema Raman (San Diego); Murray Raskind (Seattle); Gary Romano (Beerse); Juha Rouru (Turku); Ivana Rubino (Cambridge); Ricardo Sainz-Fuertes (Wexham); Stephen Salloway (Providence); Cristina Sampaio (Princeton); Philip Scheltens (Amsterdam); Rachel Schindler (New York); Mark Schmidt (Beerse); Jeroen Schmitt (Lausanne); Peter Schüler (Langen); Märta Segerdahl Storck (Valby); Eric Siemers (Indianapolis); John Sims (Indianapolis); LeAnne Skordos (Cambridge); Bjorn Sperling (Cambridge); Reisa Sperling (Boston); Joyce Suhy (Newark); Serge Van der Geyten (Beerse); Philipp Von Rosenstiel (Cambridge); Michael Weiner (San Francisco); Glen Wunderlich (Ridgefield); Haichen Yang (North Wales); Jerry Yang (New York)
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Sano, M., Soto, M., Carrillo, M. et al. Identifying Better Outcome Measures to Improve Treatment of Agitation in Dementia: A Report from the EU/US/CTAD Task Force. J Prev Alzheimers Dis 5, 98–102 (2018). https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2018.15
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