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Guidelines for out-patient electroconvulsive therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jim Laidlaw
Jim Laidlaw*
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SHO in Psychiatry, Coney Hill Hospital, Coney Hill, Gloucester GL4 7QJ
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Psychiatry is much more community based than ten years ago. Despite this there is little specific research published on out-patient electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and there is a lack of well-defined guidelines for its administration.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 7 , July 1992 , pp. 423 - 424
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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