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Title: Does electrode placement predict time to rehospitalization?
Authors: Little, John
Munday, Jo
Atkins, Martin
Khalid, Abdul
Issue Date: 2004
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Place of publication: Hagerstown, MD
Publication Title: Journal of ECT
Volume: 20
Issue: 4
Start Page: 213
End Page: 218
Abstract: We sought to determine whether electrode placement influenced time to rehospitalization. A retrospective review of an elderly, depressed population that had received bitemporal, bifrontal or 6 x RUL ECT was examined to determine time to rehospitalization. Bitemporal ECT was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the number of (P = 0.026) and time to (P = 0.025), rehospitalization. Bitemporal ECT may be a preferred electrode placement, not only because of its demonstrated effectiveness across a range of diagnoses, but for its previously undocumented capacity to delay rehospitalization.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11054/180
ISSN: 1095-0680
Internal ID Number: 00164
Health Subject: ECT
ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
ELECTRODE PLACEMENT
RE-HOSPITALIZATION
ELDERLY
DEPRESSION
BITEMPORAL
BIFRONTAL
6X RUL-ECT
Type: Journal Article
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