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1 Regular Articles ECT OLFSON, Am AND J Psychiatry MARCUS, RECURRENT 155:1, SACKEIM, MAJOR January ET 1998 DEPRESSION AL. Use of ECT for the Inpatient Treatment of Recurrent Major Depression Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., Steven Marcus, M.A., Harold A. Sackeim, Ph.D., James Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., and Harold Alan Pincus, M.D. Objective: The authors goals were to determine the frequency and distribution of ECT for general hospital inpatients with recurrent major depression and to estimate the effects of prompt ECT on the length and cost of inpatient care. Method: Data from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project were analyzed to determine the rate of ECT use for adult inpatients with a principal discharge diagnosis of major depression, recurrent. Associations between prompt initial use of ECT (in the first 5 hospital days) and length and cost of inpatient care were examined before and after control for sociodemographic, diagnostic, and hospital organizational characteristics. Results: An estimated 9.4% of general hospital adult inpatients with a principal diagnosis of recurrent major depression received ECT in the survey year. A majority (59.2%) of these received their initial ECT session within the first 5 days after hospital admission. In univariate analyses, the likelihood of receiving ECT was greater for older patients, whites, privately insured individuals, and patients who lived in more affluent areas. Patients who received ECT tended to have relatively long and costly admissions. After control for several demographic, diagnostic, and hospital organizational characteristics, prompt ECT (as compared with delayed ECT or none) was associated with significantly shorter and less costly inpatient care. Conclusions: The longer stays and higher treatment costs associated with ECT may be a consequence of patient selection. When patient selection is taken into account, prompt administration of ECT is associated with shorter and less costly hospital stays. Nonetheless, economically disadvantaged patients are relatively unlikely to receive this treatment. (Am J Psychiatry 1998; 155:22 29) E CT is a safe and effective treatment for patients with all subtypes of major depression (1). A substantial body of research indicates that ECT is at least as effective as antidepressant medications for the treatment of major depression (2); nonetheless, ECT is only rarely used as a first-line treatment (3). The use of ECT in clinical practice Received Feb. 18, 1997; revision received May 16, 1997; accepted July 10, From the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pa.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; and the Office of Research, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C. Address reprint requests to Dr. Olfson, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th St., New York, NY Supported by a grant from the Van Ameringen Foundation to the American Psychiatric Association and by NIMH grant MH to Dr. Olfson. has been limited by public concern regarding its safety (4), regulations governing its use (5, 6), and the perception that it is not a cost-effective alternative. It is often assumed that ECT increases the length and costs of inpatient care (7 9). This assumption is based on studies that compare the length of stay of patients who have and have not received ECT. Depressed inpatients treated with ECT have significantly longer stays (mean=36.7 days) than patients treated with antidepressants (mean=19.5 days) (7). Conversely, patients with long stays are more likely than patients with shorter stays to receive ECT (8). Even inpatients who are treated with ECT promptly after hospital admission have longer stays than patients initially treated with antidepressant medications (9). In the past decade, the only report to conclude that ECT shortens rather than lengthens hospital stays was from an inpatient unit with 22 Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January 1998

2 OLFSON, MARCUS, SACKEIM, ET AL. an exceptionally long mean length of stay (54.6 days) for depressed patients treated without ECT (10). An important limitation of previous studies is that they were conducted at urban, tertiary care teaching hospitals, and so their findings may not generalize to broader practice patterns. Furthermore, there has not been a consistent effort to control or adjust for pretreatment differences in the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of the patients who receive ECT. It is possible that underlying differences in the characteristics of patients selected for ECT help contribute to the observed correlation between ECT and longer inpatient stays. ECT is often reserved for patients who have had an incomplete or partial response to antidepressant medications (3). In evaluating the effect of ECT on the costs and length of hospitalization, it is important to distinguish this application of ECT from its use as an initial treatment. In this context, it remains unknown whether prompt initiation of ECT is associated with increased or decreased costs of the inpatient treatment of major depression. Given the generally comparable efficacy of ECT and antidepressant medications for major depression, the issue of cost-effectiveness assumes increased relevance. These issues are especially important in the light of present-day financial realities and the increasing trend toward prospective payment and capitation. In this report, we analyze data from a large, nationally representative sample survey of general hospital inpatients to study the use of ECT for recurrent major depression. Before conducting the analyses, we hypothesized that patients selected for ECT would be older, have high rates of psychiatric and general medical comorbidity, and tend to receive inpatient care within large, urban medical centers. We further hypothesized that adjusting for these and related patient and hospital characteristics would account for much of the greater length of stay and greater inpatient costs associated with ECT. METHOD Patient data were drawn from the 1993 nationwide inpatient sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11), which is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. It consists of 6.5 million computerized case records from a geographically dispersed sample of 913 community hospitals in 17 states. It approximates a 20% sample of U.S. community hospitals. No state mental hospitals are included in the sample. Some data on hospital variables in this report are derived from the 1994 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals (12). The AHA survey includes detailed information on the services and operation of hospitals in the United States and associated territories that can be linked to the specific hospitals sampled in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Sample selection was based on a stratified probability sample of short-stay nonfederal hospitals. To help ensure that the surveyed hospitals were representative, sampling strata were defined for five hospital characteristics: geographic region, ownership (nonfederal government, private nonprofit, or private for-profit), location (urban or rural), teaching status, and size (number of beds). A systematic random sample was drawn from each stratum. This selection occurred after we sorted hospitals by state within each stratum and by the first three digits of the hospital s zip code within each state and then by a random number within each three-digit zip code. Sampling probabilities were proportional to the number of U.S. community hospitals in each stratum. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research constructed weights based on the reciprocal probability of sampling to approximate national estimates. All percentages in this report are weighted to adjust for the sampling probability. Patient variables selected from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project discharge abstracts included length of inpatient stay, age, sex, race/ethnicity, primary payer, principal discharge diagnosis, discharge status, secondary diagnoses (up to 14), principal procedure, secondary procedures (up to 14), median income in the patient s residential zip code area, and total inpatient charges. Hospital variables drawn from the AHA survey included size, ownership, location, teaching status, number of psychiatric beds, and geographic region. Data were collected from seven of the 10 AHA geographic regions of the United States and associated territories (11). In some analyses, mountain and Pacific states were collapsed into western states ; New England, middle Atlantic, and south Atlantic states were collapsed into eastern states ; and east and west north central states were collapsed into midwestern states. We restricted the main analysis to data on adults 18 years of age and older who had a principal discharge diagnosis of major depression, recurrent (ICD diagnosis 296.3), had a stay of more than 1 day, and were admitted to a general medical and surgical hospital with at least one psychiatric bed. Preliminary analysis revealed that ECT was far more commonly used in the treatment of recurrent depression than of single-episode major depression. In addition, ECT was very rarely used (0.17% of cases) for patients under 18 years of age who had recurrent major depression. Very brief stays (1 day or less) were excluded as administrative or paper admissions. Because of important differences in the presentation and treatment of depression in patients assigned to psychiatric beds and those assigned to general medical beds (13), we excluded from the analysis patients who were admitted to hospitals without dedicated psychiatric beds. The vast majority (98.5%) of adult general hospital inpatients with a principal diagnosis of recurrent major depression who received ECT were treated in hospitals with at least one psychiatric bed. We have no means of determining the proportion of selected cases in which the patients were treated in dedicated psychiatric beds within these facilities. Our first goal was to provide a descriptive overview of the use of ECT (ICD-9 procedure 94.27) for the treatment of depressive disorders, focusing on major depression, recurrent. We determined rates of ECT use stratified by patients sociodemographic and diagnostic characteristics and hospitals characteristics. A logistic regression was conducted to estimate associations of these variables with ECT. Our second goal was to examine the effect of prompt use of ECT on the length and cost of inpatient care for recurrent depression. We evaluated the effect of ECT on these variables stratified by the date of the first ECT (during the first 1 5 hospital days versus more than 5 days after admission). General linear multiple regression analysis was used to estimate the association of prompt ECT administration with length of stay and total hospital charges, with control for sociodemographic, diagnostic, and hospital organizational variables. Information on the timing of the first ECT session was only available when ECT was listed as the principal procedure. ECT was the principal procedure in 77.6% (N=1,754) of the cases of adult recurrent major depression for which it was provided. The remaining 22.4% of cases (N=437) were removed from the multivariate analyses of cost and length of stay. We used the SUDAAN software package (14) to accommodate the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project sampling design and weights. SUDAAN was used to calculate adjusted means and corresponding standard errors with the logistic and linear regressions and to calculate 99% confidence intervals for the rate estimates. RESULTS In 1993 an estimated 249,600 patients were discharged from general hospitals with a principal diagno- Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January

3 ECT AND RECURRENT MAJOR DEPRESSION TABLE 1. Sociodemographic Characteristics and Secondary Diagnoses of a Total Sample of Adult Inpatients With Recurrent Major Depression and Those Who Received ECT a Total Patients Who Rate of 99% Sample Received ECT ECT Use Confidence Analysis Characteristic (N=22,761) b (N=2,191) b (%) c Interval χ 2 df p Age (years) < , , , ,489 1, Sex < Male 7, Female 15,535 1, Race/ethnicity < White 14,451 1, Black 1, Hispanic Other Primary payer < Medicare 8,175 1, Medicaid 5, Private insurance 6, Self-pay d 1, Other Median income in patient s zip code area ($) < , ,001 20,000 1, ,001 25,000 3, ,001 30,000 4, ,001 35,000 3, ,001 40,000 2, ,001 45,000 1, Over 45,000 2, Secondary diagnosis Schizophrenia Dementia < Substance use 5, < General medical 8,204 1, < a Data are from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11). b The Ns vary within characteristics because of missing data. c Percents are based on weighted estimates. Overall, 9.4%; 99% confidence interval= d Self-pay and uncompensated care. sis of a depressive disorder. These diagnoses were unevenly distributed between major depression, recurrent (47.7%), major depression, single episode (39.6%), depression not otherwise specified (6.4%), and dysthymia (6.3%). Major depression, recurrent, with psychotic features was the principal diagnosis in 10.0% of the depressive disorder cases, and major depression, single episode, with psychotic features was the principal diagnosis in 5.9% of the cases. The rate of ECT use per 100 patients was higher for inpatients with a principal diagnosis of major depression, recurrent (9.4%), than for those with major depression, single episode (3.2%), dysthymia (0.5%), and depression not otherwise specified (0.8%). Patients with major depression, recurrent, with psychotic features and those with major depression, single episode, with psychotic features had relatively high rates of ECT (11.8% and 5.5%, respectively). Among adults with a principal diagnosis of recurrent major depression, ECT use varied widely across demographic strata (table 1). Comparatively high rates of ECT use were evident for older patients (especially those aged 65 years and older), whites, Medicare beneficiaries, and patients living in more affluent residential areas. By contrast, lower rates of ECT were observed for younger adults, blacks, Hispanics, Medicaid beneficiaries, self-paying patients, and those who lived in the poorest residential regions. Depressed inpatients with a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia, a general medical disorder, or dementia were considerably more likely to receive ECT than those with a secondary diagnosis of a substance use disorder. Use of ECT varied widely by geographic region. Depressed patients treated in the west north central states (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas) were approximately four times as likely as their counterparts in the mountain states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada) to receive ECT (table 2). Depressed patients in private nonprofit and public general hospitals were significantly more likely to receive ECT than their counterparts in private for-profit general hospitals. Data on discharge status were available for 2,176 pa- 24 Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January 1998

4 OLFSON, MARCUS, SACKEIM, ET AL. TABLE 2. Characteristics of Hospitals Used by a Total Sample of Adult Inpatients With Recurrent Major Depression and Those Who Received ECT a Total Patients Who Rate of 99% Sample Received ECT ECT Use Confidence Analysis Hospital Characteristic (N=22,761) b (N=2,191) b (%) c Interval χ 2 df p Ownership Private nonprofit 19,533 1, Public 2, Private for-profit Location Urban 20,531 2, Rural 2, Teaching status Teaching 14,359 1, Nonteaching 8, Size (number of beds) <200 4, , , , Geographic region < New England 2, Middle Atlantic 3, South Atlantic 7, East north central 4, West north central 1, Mountain Pacific 2, a Data are from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11). b The Ns vary within characteristics because of missing data. c Percents are based on weighted estimates. Overall, 9.4%; 99% confidence interval= tients with recurrent major depression who received ECT. Most (83.5%) were routinely discharged. Much smaller percentages were discharged to a skilled nursing facility (4.2%), home health care (3.8%), another short-term hospital (2.2%), an intensive care facility (1.9%), or some other health care facility (3.4%). Only 1.0% of the recurrently depressed patients who received ECT were discharged against medical advice. None of the depressed patients who received ECT died during the hospitalization. In contrast, 30 (0.14%) of the depressed patients who did not receive ECT died in the hospital (χ 2 =41.6, df=1, p<0.0001). We used logistic regression to estimate associations of the demographic, payment, diagnostic, and hospital organizational variables with use of ECT for recurrent major depression. Age emerged as the most powerful predictor of the use of ECT, followed by geographic region (table 3). In this model, patients aged 65 years and older had an estimated 6.7 times greater likelihood of receiving ECT than younger adults (18 34 years). Patients in eastern states and midwestern states were approximately twice as likely to receive ECT as their counterparts in western states. Hispanic ethnicity, Medicaid payment, self-payment, low median residential area income, and a secondary substance use disorder diagnosis each independently and significantly decreased the likelihood of receiving ECT. Compared with whites, blacks tended to be less likely to receive ECT. The likelihood of receiving ECT was significantly reduced when treatment was in a rural hospital as compared with an urban hospital and within a private for-profit hospital as compared with a private nonprofit hospital (table 3). In univariate analyses, patients with recurrent depression who received ECT had significantly longer hospital stays, higher inpatient treatment costs, and higher daily treatment costs than patients who did not receive ECT (table 4). Most (59.2%) of the patients who were treated with ECT as the principal procedure (N=1,754) received their initial ECT during the first 5 hospital days. The length of stay and total charges of patients who received ECT during the first 5 hospital days were significantly less than those of patients who received their initial ECT later in the hospitalization. However, the mean total inpatient cost for depressed patients who received ECT during the first 5 hospital days was more than $5,000 greater than the cost for depressed patients who did not receive ECT. After controlling for the effects of the demographic, diagnostic, and hospital administrative variables, we found that prompt provision of ECT was associated with significantly shorter and less expensive inpatient stays (table 5). In these multiple linear regression models, administration of ECT during the first 5 hospital days was associated with a 6.0-day reduction in length of stay and a decrease of $5,722 in hospital charges. Similar analyses of the subgroup of patients with recurrent major depression with psychotic features revealed an even stronger effect of prompt ECT administration on length of stay (9.0-day reduction) and hospital charges ($8,619 reduction). Other factors associated with lower hospital charges Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January

5 ECT AND RECURRENT MAJOR DEPRESSION TABLE 3. Predictors of ECT Utilization for Adult Inpatients With Recurrent Major Depression (multiple logistic regression model) a Predictor Odds Ratio 99% Confidence Interval Analysis b Age (years) (18 34) F=68.5, df=3, 605, p< t=7.4, p< t=12.6, p< t=17.0, p< Sex (male) Female t=1.3, p=0.20 Race/ethnicity (white) F=3.5, df=3, 605, p=0.02 Black t=2.1, p=0.04 Other t=0.3, p=0.77 Hispanic t=3.4, p=0.008 Primary payer (private insurance) F=8.2, df=4, 605, p< Medicare t=2.4, p=0.02 Medicaid t=6.5, p< Self-pay t=5.8, p< Other t=0.7, p=0.48 Median income in patient s zip code area F=10.9, df=3, 605, p< ($) (>45,000) 0 15, t=3.3, p= ,001 25, t=1.4, p= ,001 45, t=0.5, p=0.62 Secondary diagnosis General medical t=1.1, p=0.25 Substance use t=10.9, p< Schizophrenia t=0.1, p=0.94 Dementia t=0.9, p=0.37 Hospital ownership (private nonprofit) F=15.9, df=2, 605, p< Public t=0.2, p=0.85 Private for-profit t=5.4, p< Hospital location (urban) Rural t=2.9, p=0.004 Hospital teaching status (nonteaching) Teaching t=0.4, p=0.67 Hospital size (number of beds) ( 500) F=0.7, df=3, 605, p=0.52 < t=0.2, p= t=0.7, p= t=1.1, p=0.27 Geographic region (western states) F=7.3, df=2, 605, p= Eastern states t=2.6, p=0.01 Midwestern states t=2.7, p=0.007 a Data are from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11). Reference groups are in parentheses. Intercept= 0.12; full model log likelihood F=10,280.3, df=27, 605, p< b F tests are for overall dummy variables for each factor. For all t tests, df=605. Results are from analyses using SUDAAN (14). included smaller hospital size, lower residential area median income, and a secondary diagnosis of a substance use disorder (table 5). Factors significantly associated with greater hospital charges included older patient age, nonwhite race, Medicare insurance, and a secondary diagnosis of a general medical disorder or dementia. Higher inpatient costs were also associated with treatment in a teaching hospital and treatment in eastern rather than western states (table 5). DISCUSSION In accord with several earlier studies, we found that depressed inpatients who receive ECT tend to have longer and more expensive hospital stays than similarly diagnosed patients treated without ECT (7 9). Even when ECT is initiated promptly during the hospitalization, it continues to be associated with longer and more costly inpatient treatment. However, depressed patients who receive ECT differ in several important respects from those who do not. Patients who receive ECT tend to be older (15, 16) and are more likely to have secondary diagnoses of schizophrenia, dementia, and general medical (nonpsychiatric) disorders. They also tend to be treated in large urban hospitals that are operated on a private nonprofit basis and are located in eastern or midwestern states. When these and other differences are taken into account, prompt initiation of ECT is associated with shorter and less costly inpatient treatment as compared with no ECT or delayed ECT (table 5). In other words, the long stays common among patients who receive ECT may be a consequence of underlying pretreatment patient and hospital characteristics rather than the ECT per se. Particularly impressive savings are associated with prompt use of ECT for patients with recurrent depression with psychotic features. Aside from disposition of patients at hospital discharge, this study provides no information on clinical outcomes. For this reason, we are unable to assess the cost-effectiveness of ECT in this sample. However, we have no reason to believe that the clinical criteria for hospital discharge are different for depressed patients who receive ECT than for depressed patients who receive other treatments. We also note that a vast majority of the patients in our sample who were treated with ECT for recurrent depression were routinely discharged, and none of the patients who received ECT died during the hospitalization. The finding of lower hospital charges associated with prompt use of ECT suggests that hospital costs would have been higher if ECT were not available for the patients who received it. However, we have no means of determining whether extending ECT to other patient groups or hospital settings would result in similar cost savings. It is possible that practicing physicians consider cost issues when selecting patients for ECT. In line with earlier research (15, 16), we observed that blacks tended to be less likely than whites to receive ECT. Beyond this racial disparity, Hispanic ethnicity, residence in a poorer area, Medicaid payment, and a lack of health insurance were each associated with a decreased probability of receiving ECT. The basis of these disparities remains obscure. Low rates of ECT utilization among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups might reflect attitudinal or cultural barriers, knowledge deficits, or racial or economic biases in clinical selection and referral processes. Previous research indicates that ECT is rarely available in state and county mental hospitals (15, 16). A dearth of funding to support personnel training may contribute 26 Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January 1998

6 OLFSON, MARCUS, SACKEIM, ET AL. TABLE 4. Length of Stay, Total Costs, and Daily Costs for Selected Groups of Adult Inpatients With Recurrent Major Depression Who Received or Did Not Receive ECT a No ECT Use (N=20,570) Any ECT Use (N=2,191) Initial ECT on Hospital Days 1 5 (N=1,039) Initial ECT After Hospital Day 5 (N=715) Variable Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Length of stay (days) b Total costs ($) c 9,460 38,724 20,708 33,983 14,730 18,663 27,170 24,600 Daily cost ($) d 745 2, a Data are from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11). For 437 patients who received ECT, no data were available on the timing of the initial ECT. Degrees of freedom in the statistical analyses are calculated by SUDAAN (14) as the number of primary sampling units minus the number of strata in the sampling design. b For no ECT versus any ECT, t=18.0, df=605, p<0.0001; for ECT on hospital days 1 5 versus after hospital day 5, t=21.6, df=605, p< c For no ECT versus any ECT, t=22.0, df=605, p<0.0001; for ECT on hospital days 1 5 versus after hospital day 5, t=17.4, df=605, p< d For no ECT versus any ECT, t=4.2, df=605, p<0.0001; for ECT on hospital days 1 5 versus after hospital day 5, t=2.4, df=605, p<0.02. TABLE 5. Predictors of Length of Inpatient Stay and Inpatient Costs for Adults With Recurrent Major Depression (general linear models) a Predictor Estimated Length of Estimated Stay (days) b Analysis c Cost ($) d Analysis c Age (years) (18 34) F=12.2, df=3, 605, F=2.3, df=3, 605, p=0.07 p< t=1.7, p< t=1.5, p= t=6.2, p< ,534 t=5.1, p< t=10.6, p< ,521 t=8.2, p< Sex (male) Female 0.1 t=0.6, p= t=1.3, p=0.18 Race/ethnicity (white) F=2.9, df=3, 605, p=0.03 F=2.5, df=3, 605, p=0.06 Black 2.4 t=3.2, p= ,614 t=2.4, p=0.02 Hispanic 2.3 t=2.3, p=0.02 2,483 t=1.7, p=0.08 Other 6.2 t=3.7, p= ,160 t=3.2, p=0.001 Primary payer (private insurance) F=8.1, df=4, 605, p< F=3.8, df=4, 605, p=0.005 Medicare 3.1 t=6.5, p< ,923 t=6.5, p< Medicaid 0.8 t=1.9, p= t=1.6, p=0.11 Self-pay 0.4 t=0.6, p= t=0.6, p=0.58 Other 1.1 t=1.6, p=0.10 1,806 t=1.9, p=0.06 Median income in patient s zip code area ($)(>45,000) F=3.0, df=3, 605, p=0.03 F=0.8, df=3, 605, p= , t=1.4, p= t=0.9, p= ,001 25, t=3.4, p= ,204 t=3.9, p= ,001 45, t=3.3, p= ,872 t=4.0, p= Secondary diagnosis General medical 1.8 t=5.6, p< ,058 t=5.1, p< Substance use 1.9 t=6.2, p< ,579 t=5.5, p< Schizophrenia 3.5 t=3.3, p= t=1.5, p=0.15 Dementia 2.3 t=3.1, p= ,892 t=2.3, p=0.02 Hospital ownership (private nonprofit) F=6.6, df=2, 605, p=0.001 F=0.6, df=2, 605, p=0.58 Public 3.7 t=3.9, p= ,988 t=1.5, p=0.13 Private for-profit 0.2 t=0.2, p= t=0.5, p=0.64 Hospital location (urban) Rural 0.4 t=0.6, p=0.60 1,474 t=1.9, p=0.05 Hospital teaching status (nonteaching) Teaching 1.9 t=2.5, p=0.01 1,966 t=2.4, p=0.02 Hospital size (number of beds) ( 500) F=5.8, df=3, 605, p= F=3.6, df=3, 605, p=0.01 < t=4.2, p< ,418 t=3.3, p= t=0.0, p=0.97 1,054 t=1.1, p= t=1.9, p=0.06 2,634 t=2.6, p=0.009 Geographic region (western states) F=8.1, df=2, 605, p= F=26.6, df=2, 605, p< Eastern states 9.7 t=8.0, p< ,626 t=4.8, p< Midwestern states 3.2 t=2.8, p= t=0.1, p=0.90 ECT (none or after hospital day 5) Hospital days t=8.4, p< ,722 t=7.6, p< a Data are from the 1993 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (11). Reference groups are in parentheses. b Intercept= 21.8 days; overall F=407.0, df=29, 605, p< c F tests are for overall dummy variables for each factor. For all t tests, df=605. Results are from analyses using SUDAAN (14). d Intercept= $9,863; overall F=124.9, df=29, 605, p< Am J Psychiatry 155:1, January

7 ECT AND RECURRENT MAJOR DEPRESSION to the scarcity of ECT in these facilities and in the general hospitals in the current study that serve poorer patient populations. There are no empirical data that provide a clinical rationale for the selective use of ECT in more affluent, socioeconomically advantaged patient groups. It is disconcerting that socioeconomically disadvantaged depressed patients do not have equal access to ECT. Detailed epidemiologic surveys of treatment seeking for major depression are needed for a better understanding of how clinical, attitudinal, cultural, financial, and service-related factors shape patient selection for ECT. In keeping with previous research (15, 17), we found a strong correlation between patients age and the use of ECT. In years past, it was assumed that the selective use of ECT in older patients was related to the greater sensitivity of older patients to the side effects of tricyclic antidepressants. With the availability of newer antidepressants with fewer side effects and fewer drug-drug interactions, it might be expected that the rates of ECT would vary less across the age spectrum. However, a strong age effect persists. As with the socioeconomic disparities, it is not clear whether the selective use of ECT in the elderly represents differences in patients attitudes, knowledge, and acceptance or entrenched practice patterns. There are data, however, which suggest that older depressed adults may preferentially respond to ECT (18). ECT was relatively rarely provided to depressed patients with a secondary diagnosis of a substance use disorder. Even after control for age and other factors, patients with a secondary substance use disorder were only about half as likely as those without such a disorder to receive ECT. Active substance use may complicate the clinical assessment and treatment of depressive symptoms. In many of these patients, depressive symptoms may resolve independent of specific antidepressant treatment (19). Clinicians who perceive that affective symptoms are secondary to substance use may focus on maintaining abstinence and adopt a watchful waiting approach to the depressive symptoms. We also found evidence of considerable geographic variation in ECT utilization, with higher use in eastern and midwestern states than in western states. Southern states, which have historically had low rates of ECT (20), were not included in the survey. Differences in state regulation of the use of ECT are thought to help account for geographic variations in its use (5, 17, 21). California, for example, regulates the use of ECT more stringently than several eastern and midwestern states (5). Regional variation in psychiatric education concerning the clinical role of ECT (22, 23) may be another source of geographic variation in the use of ECT. In many areas, ECT remains unavailable. This study was constrained by several limitations in the survey data. Perhaps most important, the survey did not provide information on the clinical effectiveness of ECT. Beyond diagnosis, information was also not available concerning severity of illness and resistance to treatment. In addition, no data were provided on the specialty of the treating physician or on the quality of ECT administration (e.g., electrical stimulus intensity, electrode placement, number of ECTs) during the hospitalization. Furthermore, the analysis was limited to nonfederal general hospitals and so did not include information on the large number of patients who receive ECT in private psychiatric hospitals, state and county mental hospitals, and federal facilities. In recent years, managed mental health care has spread at a breathtaking pace. 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