Association of acute-course electroconvulsive therapy pathway markers with same-hospital psychiatric readmission in patients with major depressive disorder: A retrospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective acute treatment for severe major depressive disorder (MDD), but whether two routinely captured acute-course ECT pathway markers-time from admission to first ECT and total acute-course session count-are associated with longer-term readmission is unclear. We exam...