Healio (9/14, Keenan) reports, “When used correctly, electroconvulsive therapy can be associated with lower all-cause mortality,” suggests “the first nationwide cohort study using Medicare claims data.”
Psychiatric News reports research indicates that “patients aged 65 or older who received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder” appeared “to have a lower rate of death in the year following discharge than similar patients who did not receive ECT while hospitalized.” Researchers arrived at this conclusion in a study that “included 10,460 ECT patients and 31,160 control patients who were matched based on such characteristics as age, gender, and number of psychiatric hospitalizations in the previous year.” The findingswere published online Sept. 10 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “Electroconvulsive therapy correlates with lower all-cause mortality “Julie S Keenan, Healio, September 14, 2021