Clinical Outcomes of Continuation and Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Large-scale evidence for the efficacy of continuation and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (c/mECT) is lacking.

Objective

To provide an exhaustive and naturalistic insight into the real-world outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of c/mECT in a large dataset.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included all patients in the Danish National Patient Registry who initiated treatment with ECT from 2003 through 2022. The data were analyzed from October 2023 to February 2024.

Exposures

ECT. An algorithm to identify c/mECTs in the dataset was developed: (>3 treatments with ≥7 and <90 days between adjacent treatments, occurring within a time frame of 180 days [cECT] or more [mECT] after an acute [aECT] series).

Main outcomes and measures

SUBMITTER: Jorgensen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411446 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature