Prepared for:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

540 Gaither Road

Rockville, MD 20850

www.ahrq.gov

Contract No. 290-02-0020

Prepared by:

McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Center

McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Investigators:

Pasqualina (Lina) Santaguida, PhD

Parminder Raina, PhD

Lynda Booker, BA

Christopher Patterson, MD

Fulvia Baldassarre, MSc

David Cowan, MD

Mary Gauld, BA

Mitch Levine, MD

Ayse Unsal, PhD

AHRQ Publication No. 04-E018-2

April 2004

ISBN: 1-58763-151-2

ISSN: 1530-4396

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Suggested Citation:

Santaguida PS, Raina P, Booker L, Patterson C, Baldassarre F, Cowan D, Gauld M, Levine M, Unsal A. Pharmacological Treatment of Dementia. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 97 (Prepared by McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0020). AHRQ Publication No. 04-E018-2. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. April 2004.