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Auditing the administration of ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

John Pippard
John Pippard*
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Research Unit, Royal College of Psychiatrists
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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.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 59 - 62
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