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Table 9: Abbreviations for Evidence Tables

ACh acetylcholine
AChE acetylcholinesterase
AD Alzheimer’s disease
ADAS Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale
ADAS-Cog cognitive subscale of Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale
ADAS-Cog 11 cognitive portion of ADAS 11-item cognitive subscale
ADAS-Cog 13 cognitive portion of ADAS 13-item cognitive subscale
ADAS-J-Cog Japanese version of ADAS-Cog
ADAS-Noncog noncognitive component of ADAS
ADCS/ADL Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study Activities of Daily Living
ADFACS Alzheimer’s Disease Functional Assessment and Change Scale
ADL Activities of Daily Living
ADS Alzheimer’s Deficit Scale
ALT alanine aminotransferase
AMTS Abbreviated Mental Test Score
APOE apolipoprotein E
BADLS Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale
BDS Blessed Dementia Scale
BDT Block Design Test
BGP Behavioural Rating Scale for Geriatric Patients
BS-AS Behavioral Scale for Alzheimer’s Disease
BVR Benton Visual Retention
CAMCOG Cambridge Cognitive Examination
CASI Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument
CAUST Canadian Utilization of Services Tracking questionnaire
CDR Clinical Dementia Rating Scale
CDR-SB Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of the Boxes
CGIC Clinical Global Impression Change
CGRS Clinicians Global Rating Score
ChE cholinesterase
CI confidence interval
CIBI Clinician Interview-Based Impression
CIBIC Clinician Interview-Based Impression of Change
CIBIC-plus CIBIC plus Caregiver Input
CMCS Caregiver-rated modified Chrichton Scale
CSS Caregiver Stress Scale
CST Color Slide Test
CT computed tomography
CVD cerebrovascular disease
DAD Disability Assessment for Dementia scale
DON donepezil
DSM-III Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version III
DSM-III-R
DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version IV
DST Digit Span Test
FAST Functional Assessment Staging Scale
FCCA Final Comprehensive Consensus Assessment
FLS Functional Life Scale
FOME Fuld Object Memory Evaluation
FRS Functional Rating Scale
GAL galantamine
GBS Gottfried, Brane and Steel Scale
GDS Global Deterioration Scale
GERRI Geriatric Evaluation by Relative’s Rating Instrument
HDS Hierarchic Dementia Scale
HIS Hachinski Ischemia Scale
HUI Health Utilities Index
IADL Instrumental activities of daily living

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