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ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2020

Electroconvulsive Therapy During COVID-19-Times: Our Patients Cannot Wait.

Pascal Sienaert, Simon Lambrichts, Leen Popleu, Elke Van Gerven, Satya Buggenhout, Filip Bouckaert

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Article in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Electroconvulsive therapy and autobiographical memory.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026
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  7. The Impact of COVID-19 on Brain Stimulation Therapy.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2022
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  12. ECT: A decision to decrease risks during COVID-19 pandemic.Revista de psiquiatria y salud mental · 2021
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  15. Electroconvulsive Therapy Practice Changes in Older Individuals Due to COVID-19: Expert Consensus Statement.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2020
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  16. Accelerated Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation in Late-Life Depression: A Possible Option for Older Depressed Adults in Need of ECT During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2020
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  20. COVID-19, Aging, and Mental Health: Lessons From the First Six Months.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Pascal SienaertKU Leuven, Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation (AcCENT) (PS, SL, VG, and SB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Pascal.sienaert@upckuleuven.be.
Simon LambrichtsKU Leuven, Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation (AcCENT) (PS, SL, VG, and SB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Leen PopleuUHasselt, Center of anatomical sciences and education UHasselt (LP), Diepenbeek, Belgium; KU Leuven, Department of infection control (LP), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Elke Van GervenKU Leuven, Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation (AcCENT) (PS, SL, VG, and SB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, Department of Anesthesiology (EVG), University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Satya BuggenhoutKU Leuven, Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation (AcCENT) (PS, SL, VG, and SB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, Old-Age Psychiatry (SB and FB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Filip BouckaertKU Leuven, Old-Age Psychiatry (SB and FB), University Psychiatric Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsElectroconvulsive TherapyInfection ControlMental DisordersOrganizational InnovationPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAgedBetacoronavirusChange ManagementCOVID-19HumansNeeds AssessmentProcedures and Techniques UtilizationRisk AssessmentSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32345550
PMCPMC7195425

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