Escitalopram for agitation in Alzheimer's disease (S-CitAD): Methods and design of an investigator-initiated, randomized, controlled, multicenter clinical trial

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA.
• ³ Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴ Campbell Family Research Institute and Division of Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry, CAMH, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁶ Roper St. Francis Research and Innovation Center, Charleston, SC, USA; Medical University of South Carolina, College of Health Professionals and Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁸ Departments of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences and Neurology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.