ECT plus standard care vs antipsychotics plus standard care: Response to treatment (medium term) Clinically important response to treatment as defined by each study
ECT plus standard care showed no clear difference in response to treatment (medium term) Clinically important response to… compared with antipsychotics plus standard care (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
ECT plus standard care vs antipsychotics plus standard care Response to treatment (medium term) Clinically important response to treatment as defined by each study · people with treatment‐resistant schizophrenia ECT plus standard care showed no clear difference in response to treatment (medium term) Clinically important response to… compared with antipsychotics plus standard care (low certainty). Electroconvulsive therapy for treatment‐resistant schizophrenia (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.23 [0.95, 1.58] | 1 study · 162 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electroconvulsive therapy for treatment‐resistant schizophrenia 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.