Rules for centre enrollment

The criteria for new centre enrolment have been settled and approved by the whole InspECT group.

• Criteria for New Centre status:

– Appropriately trained

• Having participated in ECT treatment at an experienced InspECT centre.

• Having received training at their own institution, delivering ECT according to the SOP.

• Having performed a minimum of 5 treatments.

• Being suitably trained to upload high quality, consistent data in accordance with guidelines for the InspECT database.

– Willing to participate

• in advancing science

• in treating and uploading data at a minimum of 5 patients per year.

• in collecting prospective data, complying with good clinical practice and participating in monitoring

• in complying with national and regional regulations regarding data safety and ethics and other relevant regulations.

• in attending InspECT meetings regularly

• in supporting the training and educational endeavours of InspECT.

– Centres may be excluded if they consistently fail to comply with these criteria