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An audit of electroconvulsive therapy
C A Galletly1, C Field, C Ormond
1Hillcrest Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.
Australian Clinical Review
|December 1, 1987
Abstract
Objective:
To audit five years experience with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Method:
Retrospectively audit the case records of all patients receiving ECT from 1981 to 1985. This enabled us to compare our clinical practise with published guidelines for optimal use of ECT.
Results:
Review 486 courses of ECT yielded a total of 3936 treatments. The audit identified several areas of clinical practise which do not comply with recommended standards for ECT.