Key result
Electroconvulsive therapy for depression should not be dismissed as ineffective, because a lack of clinical studies is not the same as a lack of therapeutic effect.
Why the study?
Does electroconvulsive therapy improve short term efficacy in inpatients with depression?
Does electroconvulsive therapy improve short term efficacy in inpatients with depression?
The author argues that a lack of studies on ECT does not equate to a lack of effect, citing personal experience with a past trial.
Read and Cunliffe argue against electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).1 Attitudes to ECT can be formed early in a career. As a young doctor, I witnessed the double blind, placebo controlled trial of the short term efficacy of ECT for inpatients with depression that was conducted at Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham, in the early 1980s.2 After the …
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Keith E. Dudleston (2019) studied this question. Electroconvulsive therapy for depression should not be dismissed as ineffective, because a lack of clinical studies is not the same as a lack of therapeutic effect.
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