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. 2020 Feb 1;8:4. doi: 10.1186/s40337-020-0277-8

Table 41.

Family-based inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa

Certainty assessment Impact Certainty Importance
№ of studies Study design Risk of bias Inconsistency Indirectness Imprecision Other considerations
Change in weight (assessed with: Absolute weight gain during admission in kg)
 1 Case Series very seriousa not serious not serious not serious none One case series including 37 patients. LOS in hospital was a mean of 20.6 weeks (SD = 13.6, range 3–58) in this study. Weight gain was reported as 7.5 kg (SD 4.4, range − 1.1 to 14.8 kg)

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VERY LOW

CRITICAL
Weight
 2 Case Reports very serious a not serious not serious not serious none Two case reports – LOS in hospital was 10 days in one case report and unclear in the second case report. A change in BMI from 16.32 to 17.5 (ie 82%TGW to 85.8%TGW) in one case report, and a change in BMI of 15.4 to 19.5 in the second case report. In the second case report the family received 8 sessions of family-based informed therapy via telepsychiatry as one parent and siblings were not local.

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VERY LOW

CRITICAL

Explanations

aObservational study with no comparison or control

Bibliography:

Case Series - Halvorsen 2018 [211]

Case Reports - Goldfield 2003 [63], Matthews 2016 [39]