E.1 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.1 | Medical condition(s) being investigated |
Agitation and Aggression in Alzheimer's Disease |
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E.1.1.1 | Medical condition in easily understood language |
Patients with Alzheimer's disease with symptoms that include agitation and aggressive behaviors |
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E.1.1.2 | Therapeutic area | Diseases [C] - Nervous System Diseases [C10] |
MedDRA Classification |
E.1.2 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.2 | Version | 20.0 |
E.1.2 | Level | LLT |
E.1.2 | Classification code | 10001896 |
E.1.2 | Term | Alzheimer's disease |
E.1.2 | System Organ Class | 100000004852 |
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E.1.3 | Condition being studied is a rare disease | No |
E.2 Objective of the trial |
E.2.1 | Main objective of the trial |
To evaluate the safety and tolerability of pimavanserin after 52 weeks of treatment in subjects with probable AD who have symptoms of agitation and aggression. |
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E.2.2 | Secondary objectives of the trial |
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E.2.3 | Trial contains a sub-study | No |
E.3 | Principal inclusion criteria |
1. Can understand the nature of the trial and protocol requirements and provide signed informed consent and can understand and sign other forms necessary for participation in the trial (e.g., the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] authorization form in the United States). The following requirements for consent must be met:
• from the subject, if the subject is deemed competent to provide informed consent
• from an appropriate person according to national and local regulations (e.g. the subject’s legally authorized representative [LAR] with the subject’s assent), if the subject is deemed not competent to provide informed consent
2. Lives at home or in an assisted living or care facility (but has the capacity to visit the clinic as an outpatient)
3. Has a designated study partner/caregiver (e.g., relative, housemate, close personal friend, or professional caregiver) who is in contact with the subject at least 3 times a week on 3 separate days. The study partner/caregiver should:
• be willing and able to accompany the subject to all clinic visits,
• be capable of routinely monitoring and reporting study drug use,
• be regarded by the Investigator as sufficiently informed to report accurately on the subject’s behavioral and functional status.
4. The subject’s study partner/caregiver provides written agreement that they understand the study, including the role of the study partner/caregiver and will participate in the study
5. Both subject and study partner/caregiver are fluent in and able to read the local language in which study assessments are administered at the clinical site
6. Both subject and study partner/caregiver are willing and able to participate in all scheduled evaluations and complete all required tests
7. Must complete the Week 12 visit in Study ACP-103-032 while continuing to take his/her assigned dose of blinded study drug
8. If female, must be of non-childbearing potential (defined as either surgically sterilized or at least 1 year postmenopausal) or must agree to use a clinically acceptable method of contraception (e.g., oral, intrauterine device [IUD; diaphragm], injectable, transdermal or implantable contraception) or abstinence during the study, and 1 month following completion of the study. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) pregnancy test at Baseline. |
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E.4 | Principal exclusion criteria |
1. Is participating in another clinical trial (other than Study ACP-103-032) of any investigational drug, device, or intervention
2. The Investigator determines that enrollment in the study would be detrimental to a subject’s well-being
3. The Investigator becomes aware of an impending and unexpected change in the subject’s living situation (e.g., change in caregiver, change in facility, moving from home to facility, moving from one family member or caregiver’s home to another) that s/he judges may cause a major disruption in the subject’s behaviour
4. Subject or study partner/caregiver has an uncorrected medical condition (e.g., hearing, vision impairments) that would impair the ability to perform the study assessments.
5. Subject is judged by the Investigator or the Medical Monitor to be inappropriate for the study
6. Subject was significantly non-compliant in Study ACP-103-032
7. Subject has had a QRS interval <120 ms and whose Fridericia’s corrected QT interval (QTcF) is >460 ms at baseline OR subject has had a QRS interval ≥120 ms and QTcF is >480 ms at Baseline
8. Has clinically significant laboratory abnormalities that in the judgment of the Investigator would jeopardize the safe participation of the subject in the study
9. Subject has become bedridden or has any significant medical condition that is unstable and that would either:
• place the subject at undue risk from study drug or undergoing study procedures;
or
• interfere with the interpretation of safety or efficacy evaluations performed during the course of the study
10. Subject is receiving skilled nursing care for any medical condition other than dementia (skilled nursing care includes procedures that can only be administered by a registered nurse or doctor, such as [but not limited to] intravenous administration of medication, procedures related to insertion or care of suprapubic catheters, and nasopharyngeal/tracheostomy aspiration)
11. Has a Global Clinician Assessment of Suicidality (GCAS) score of 3 or 4 based on Investigator’s assessment of behavior since the last assessment |
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E.5 End points |
E.5.1 | Primary end point(s) |
Treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) |
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E.5.1.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
Adverse events during ACP-103-033 will be recorded through the follow-up safety assessment approximately 30 days after the last dose of open-label study drug |
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E.5.2 | Secondary end point(s) |
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E.5.2.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
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E.6 and E.7 Scope of the trial |
E.6 | Scope of the trial |
E.6.1 | Diagnosis | No |
E.6.2 | Prophylaxis | No |
E.6.3 | Therapy | Yes |
E.6.4 | Safety | Yes |
E.6.5 | Efficacy | Yes |
E.6.6 | Pharmacokinetic | No |
E.6.7 | Pharmacodynamic | No |
E.6.8 | Bioequivalence | No |
E.6.9 | Dose response | No |
E.6.10 | Pharmacogenetic | No |
E.6.11 | Pharmacogenomic | No |
E.6.12 | Pharmacoeconomic | No |
E.6.13 | Others | No |
E.7 | Trial type and phase |
E.7.1 | Human pharmacology (Phase I) | No |
E.7.1.1 | First administration to humans | No |
E.7.1.2 | Bioequivalence study | No |
E.7.1.3 | Other | No |
E.7.1.3.1 | Other trial type description | |
E.7.2 | Therapeutic exploratory (Phase II) | Yes |
E.7.3 | Therapeutic confirmatory (Phase III) | No |
E.7.4 | Therapeutic use (Phase IV) | No |
E.8 Design of the trial |
E.8.1 | Controlled | No |
E.8.1.1 | Randomised | No |
E.8.1.2 | Open | Yes |
E.8.1.3 | Single blind | No |
E.8.1.4 | Double blind | No |
E.8.1.5 | Parallel group | No |
E.8.1.6 | Cross over | No |
E.8.1.7 | Other | No |
E.8.2 | Comparator of controlled trial |
E.8.2.1 | Other medicinal product(s) | No |
E.8.2.2 | Placebo | No |
E.8.2.3 | Other | No |
E.8.3 |
The trial involves single site in the Member State concerned
| No |
E.8.4 | The trial involves multiple sites in the Member State concerned | Yes |
E.8.4.1 | Number of sites anticipated in Member State concerned | 3 |
E.8.5 | The trial involves multiple Member States | Yes |
E.8.5.1 | Number of sites anticipated in the EEA | 28 |
E.8.6 Trial involving sites outside the EEA |
E.8.6.1 | Trial being conducted both within and outside the EEA | Yes |
E.8.6.2 | Trial being conducted completely outside of the EEA | No |
E.8.6.3 | If E.8.6.1 or E.8.6.2 are Yes, specify the regions in which trial sites are planned |
Chile |
France |
Spain |
United Kingdom |
United States |
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E.8.7 | Trial has a data monitoring committee | No |
E.8.8 |
Definition of the end of the trial and justification where it is not the last
visit of the last subject undergoing the trial
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E.8.9 Initial estimate of the duration of the trial |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned years | |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned months | |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned days | |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial years | 3 |