Healio (7/20, Herpen) reports, “The risk of suicide mortality was similar in patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] and matched controls, with no evidence that the therapy decreased risk of death by suicide,” investigators concluded after analyzing “electronic medical record data from the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, between 2000 and 2017, to include 5,157 index courses of ECT therapy, along with 10,097 matched controls who did not receive ECT.” The findings were published online April 13 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “ECT did not decrease risk for death by suicide compared with other mental health care “Robert Herpen, Healio, July 20, 2022