Twenty years of electroconvulsive therapy in a psychiatric unit at a university general hospital

Objective: To describe the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) at a university general hospital. Method: In this retrospective study, records from all patients undergoing ECT between January 1988 and January 2008 at the psychiatric unit of...

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Main Authors: Amilton dos Santos Jr., Maitê Cruvinel Oliveira, Tiago dos Santos Andrade, Rosana Ramos de Freitas, Cláudio Eduardo Muller Banzato, Renata Cruz Soares de Azevedo, Neury José Botega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul 2013-01-01
Series:Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-60892013000300010&lng=en&tlng=en