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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective

This is a response to Dr Charlotte Rosalind Blease's paper ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), the Placebo Effect and Informed Consent’, written by Julie K. Hersh who has had ECT. Hersh argues that placebo effect is impossible to prove without endangering the lives of participants in the study. I...

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Autor principal: Hersh, Julie K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23197793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-101195
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spelling pubmed-35951522013-03-14 Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective Hersh, Julie K J Med Ethics Clinical Ethics This is a response to Dr Charlotte Rosalind Blease's paper ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), the Placebo Effect and Informed Consent’, written by Julie K. Hersh who has had ECT. Hersh argues that placebo effect is impossible to prove without endangering the lives of participants in the study. In addition, informing potential ECT patients of unproven placebo effect could discourage patients from using a procedure that from experience has proven highly effective. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-03 2012-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3595152/ /pubmed/23197793 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-101195 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
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title Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
title_full Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
title_fullStr Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
title_full_unstemmed Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
title_short Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient's perspective
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topic Clinical Ethics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23197793
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