Auditing the administration of ECT

Open Access

1 January 1992

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Psychiatric Bulletin

Vol. 16 (1) , 59-62
https://doi.org/10.1192/s0955603600106865

Abstract

ECT has been valued for over 50 years as an effective treatment for mental illness and especially for depressive illness, and its value has been confirmed by many double-blind comparisons of real and simulated ECT.

Keywords

TREATMENT
AUDITING
MENTAL
ILLNESS
ECT ECT
ADMINISTRATION OF ECT
DOUBLE BLIND

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