title: Readmission to psychiatric hospital after treatment for depression with electroconvulsive therapy: the effect of planned readmissions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the effect of planned readmissions on readmission risk for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-treated patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A naturalistic historical study compared the readmission risk for depressed ECT-treated patients to depressed patients not treated with ECT while accounting for planned readmissions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Initial analyses revealed that ECT-treated patients were at greater risk of readmission compared to patients not treated with ECT. However, after accounting for planned readmissions, these differences became nonsignificant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Only readmissions to a single psychiatric hospital were examined. Therefore, these data may underestimate readmission rates.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Not accounting for planned readmissions may lead to overestimations of negative outcome.
authors.forename: Shannon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: Geoffrey R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Hooke
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fieldhouse
authors.forename: Claudio N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: De Felice
authors.forename: Andrew C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Page
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011336:Probability; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome