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Nondrug treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Long-term benefit not proven
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, May 11th, 2009
Whether people with Alzheimer's disease benefit in the long term from non-drug treatment interventions remains an unanswered question. This unsatisfactory finding is mainly due to the fact that convincing studies are lacking so far. For individual approaches, the studies provide indications of a benefit, but also of harm. This is the conclusion of a report by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, which was published in March 2009 and for which an English-language summary is now available.
According to IQWiG, a general problem of the benefit assessment of non-drug treatment interventions is particularly shown in the therapy of...
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