Patient-level Characteristics and Inequitable Access to Inpatient Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression: A Population-based Cross-sectional Study: Caractéristiques au niveau du patient et accès inéquitable à la thérapie électroconvulsive pour patients hospitalisés.
Tyler S KasterDaniel M BlumbergerTara GomesRinku SutradharZafiris J DasklakisDuminda N WijeysunderaSimone N VigodPublished in: Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie (2020)
Nearly 1 in 10 admissions for depression in Ontario, Canada, involve ECT. Many clinical factors associated with receiving inpatient ECT were concordant with clinical guidelines; however, nonclinical factors associated with its use warrant investigation of their impact on equitable access to ECT.