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Withdrawn Phase 4 Interventional

Evaluating The Impact Of Donepezil Hydrochloride (Aricept) On Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms In Patients With Severe Alzheimer's Disease

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00711204

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Official title

A 12-Week, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study To Evaluate The Impact Of Donepezil Hydrochloride (Aricept) On Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms In Patients With Severe Alzheimer's Disease

Brief summary

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A 12-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase IV study. Approximately 200 subjects will be enrolled, half will receive active drug (donepezil hydrochloride) and half will receive matching placebo at approximately 50 research sites within the US, the European Union, South Africa and Australia. Eligible subjects will reside at home, in an assisted living facility, or nursing homes age and will be 50 years or older, with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in the severe stage. All subjects must start with 5mg a day (one 5 mg tablet of donepezil HCL or matching placebo). Dose will be increased to 10 mg a day (two tablets of 5 mg donepezil HCL or matching placebo) after 4 weeks. Dose may be decreased based on side effects. The primary efficacy measure will be the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD). Secondary measures will include Functional Assessment Staging (FAST), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), NPI-10 (Neuropsychiatric Inventory), DEMQOL Proxy ( Quality of Life). Blood levels of cytokines and safety will also be assessed.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00711204
Recruitment status
Withdrawn
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Lead sponsor
Eisai Inc.
Industry
Enrollment
Not listed

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
50 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Dec 31, 2007
Primary completion
May 31, 2009
Completion
Not listed
Last update posted
Dec 9, 2012

Started 2008

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Kettlie Joseph Daniels, M.D. Inc. Toledo Ohio 43609

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