Information, consent and perceived coercion: patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy

2 January 2005

journal article
review article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 186 (1) , 54-59
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.186.1.54

Abstract

Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure that attracts special safeguards under common law for voluntary patients and under both current and proposed mental health legislation, for those receiving compulsory treatment.

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