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Clinical usefulness and economic implications of continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy in a Spanish National Health System public hospital: A case series
- Source :
- Revista de psiquiatria y salud mental. 8(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Introduction Continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy has been shown to be effective for prevention of relapse in affective and psychotic disorders. However, there are a limited number of studies that investigate clinical management, associated costs, and perceived quality variables. Material and methods A series of 8 cases included during the first 18 months of the continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy programme of the Psychiatry Department at 12 de Octubre University Hospital is presented. Clinical variables (clinical global impression-improvement scale, length of hospitalisation, number of emergency department visits, number of urgent admissions) before and after inclusion in the continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy programme were compared for each patient, as well as associated costs and perceived quality. Results After inclusion in the programme, 50.0% of the patients reported feeling “much better” and 37.5% “moderately better” in the clinical global impression-improvement scale. In addition, after inclusion in the continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy programme, patients were hospitalized for a total of 349 days, visited the Emergency Department on 3 occasions, and had 2 urgent admissions, compared to 690 days of hospitalisation ( p = 0.012), 26 Emergency Department visits ( p = 0.011) and 22 urgent admissions ( p = 0.010) during the same period before inclusion in the programme. Associated direct costs per day of admission were reduced to 50.6% of the previous costs, and costs associated with emergency department visits were reduced to 11.5% of the previous costs. As regards perceived quality, 87.5% of the patients assessed the care and treatment received as being “very satisfactory”, and 12.5% as “satisfactory”. Conclusions This continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy programme has shown to be clinically useful and to have a favourable economic impact, as well as high perceived quality.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
National Health Programs
media_common.quotation_subject
medicine.medical_treatment
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Continuation
Indirect costs
Electroconvulsive therapy
medicine
Humans
Prospective Studies
Hospital Costs
Electroconvulsive Therapy
media_common
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Depressive Disorder
Schizophrenia, Paranoid
business.industry
Hospitals, Public
General Medicine
Emergency department
Middle Aged
Treatment Outcome
Feeling
Psychotic Disorders
Spain
Scale (social sciences)
Public hospital
Emergency medicine
Physical therapy
Female
business
Inclusion (education)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19894600
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revista de psiquiatria y salud mental
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8f8368d3849e0e843a86902b5b9e54d0