Changes in Inpatient Electroconvulsive Therapy Utilization Between 2019 and 2020: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an essential procedure for a range of psychiatric conditions. Multiple single-center studies have documented reduction in ECT administration in 2020 because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, but there have been little nationally representative data from the United States. The aim of this study was to examine the demographics of patients receiving ECT in 2019 and 2020 and to characterize temporal and regional variations in ECT utilization.

Methods

The 2019 and 2020 National Inpatient Sample, an administrative database of inpatient hospitalizations in the United States, was queried for hospitalizations involving the delivery of ECT based on procedural codes. Overall number of ECT procedures was calculated based on the overa

SUBMITTER: Luccarelli J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514222 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature