Comparing the Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Treatment of Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Bias corrected (Hedges) effect sizes for each study.

	rTMS				ECT
Study			Confidence interval				Confidence interval
	Effect size	Standard error	Lower	Upper	Effect size	Standard error	Lower	Upper
Keshtkar 2011 [31]	0.90	0.26	0.39	1.40	2.82	0.32	2.21	3.44
Hansen et al. 2011 [27]	1.31	0.28	0.75	1.87	2.07	0.32	1.45	2.70
Eranti 2007 [32]	0.74	0.30	0.16	1.33	2.83	0.43	1.99	3.66
Rosa et al. 2006 [29]	1.61	0.36	0.89	2.32	1.56	0.42	0.74	2.38
Schulze-Rauschenbach et al. 2005 [33]	1.90	0.43	1.07	2.73	1.67	0.44	0.81	2.53
O'Connor et al. 2003 [20]	0.56	0.39	−0.20	1.31	2.27	0.48	1.32	3.22
Grunhaus et al. 2003 [34]	1.54	0.36	0.83	2.25	1.93	0.38	1.18	2.68
Janicak et al. 2002 [26]	1.93	0.47	1.00	2.86	2.17	0.59	1.00	3.33
Grunhaus et al. 2000 [28]	1.49	0.36	0.79	2.19	1.90	0.38	1.16	2.65