Rivastigmine for Alzheimer's disease

JS Birks, JG Evans - Cochrane Database of systematic …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Alzheimer's disease is the commonest cause of dementia affecting older
people. One of the therapeutic strategies aimed at ameliorating the clinical manifestations of …

Use of cholinesterase inhibitors in clinical practice: evidence-based recommendations

JL Cummings - Focus, 2004 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChE-Is) are the standard of therapy for treatment of patients with
Alzheimer disease (AD) and are the only class of drugs approved by the Food and Drug …

Path-breaking target therapies for lung cancer and a far-sighted health policy to support clinical and cost effectiveness

M Coccia - Health Policy and Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the radical innovations to treat lung cancer, which
are generating a revolution in clinical practice, in order to provide fruitful health policy …

Evolutionary growth of knowledge in path-breaking targeted therapies for lung cancer: radical innovations and structure of the new technological paradigm

M Coccia - International Journal of Behavioural and …, 2012 - inderscienceonline.com
Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer and it has the highest mortality rate
worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolutionary growth of knowledge of …

Economic considerations in the management of Alzheimer's disease

CW Zhu, M Sano - Clinical interventions in aging, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating chronic disease that significantly increases healthcare
costs and affects the quality of life (QoL) of the afflicted patients and their caregivers …

A review of rivastigmine: a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor

BR Williams, A Nazarians, MA Gill - Clinical therapeutics, 2003 - Elsevier
Background: Rivastigmine tartrate is a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor indicated for the
symptomatic treatment of mild to moderate dementia. It was approved by the US Food and …

Economic evaluation of donepezil in moderate to severe Alzheimer disease

H Feldman, S Gauthier, J Hecker, B Vellas, M Hux… - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate the costs to society of Alzheimer disease (AD) care in a
multinational, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of donepezil in patients with moderate to …

How long can patients with mild or moderate Alzheimer's dementia maintain both the cognition and the therapy of cholinesterase inhibitors: a national population …

Y Sun, MS Lai, CJ Lu, RC Chen - European journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this study were to evaluate the duration of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
(AChEI) utilization as well as the patients' cognition maintenance. This study was using …

[HTML][HTML] Model-based economic evaluation in Alzheimer's disease: a review of the methods available to model Alzheimer's disease progression

C Green, J Shearer, CW Ritchie, JP Zajicek - Value in health, 2011 - Elsevier
Objective To consider the methods available to model Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression
over time to inform on the structure and development of model-based evaluations, and the …

An economic evaluation of donepezil in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: results of a 1-year, double-blind, randomized trial

A Wimo, B Winblad, K Engedal, H Soininen… - Dementia and geriatric …, 2002 - karger.com
The costs and consequences of donepezil versus placebo treatment in patients with mild to
moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) were evaluated as part of a 1-year prospective, double …