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Seizure duration and clinical efficacy in patients receiving ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. Curran*
Affiliation:
Rosemary Day Hospital St James's University Hospital Leeds LS9 7TF
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1992

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