Electroconvulsive therapy effectiveness and harm
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(being a private hospital) where often the most difficult patients are admitted. The situation with restricted patients is differ ent. The RMO has no authority to discharge the patient, although the Home Office could be accused of passing the buck. It is unfair that administrative officers and clerks, hundreds of miles away at the Home Office, should make this decision for some of the most diff...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2019.227