Quantifying utilization and practice variation of electroconvulsive therapy

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 242-252

  Westphal, James R ^a,b,c   Horswell, Ronald ^a,b,c   Kumar, Sanjaya ^a,b,c   Rush, Jill ^a,b,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana Health Care Review Inc   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ECT; Geographic variation; Practice variation; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031458618     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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