Information, consent and perceived coercion: patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy
- 2 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 186 (1), 54-59
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.186.1.54
Abstract
Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure that attracts special safeguards under common law for voluntary patients and under both current and proposed mental health legislation, for those receiving compulsory treatment.Keywords
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