The Clinical Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Old Age
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 32 (3) , 183-186
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1984.tb01999.x
Abstract
A retrospective review was conducted on the charts of 33 elderly inpatients (age range, 62-85 yr) who received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a geriatric psychiatry unit of a general hospital. Electroconvulsive therapy was safe but not uniformly effective; only 42.4% of patients obtained an immediate good outcome. Implications of these findings for further evaluations of the indications and efficacy of ECT in old age are discussed.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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