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Table 44.

Behaviour therapy based inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with bulimia nervosa

Certainty assessment	Impact	Certainty	Importance
Change in weight (assessed with: Pre/post BMI)
1	Case Series	very serious ^a	not serious	not serious	not serious	none	One case series, including 24 patients. Mean LOS was 9.9 wks (+/−3.5 wks). Weight decreased slightly over admission from mean BMI of 20.6 +/− 4.3 to 20.5 +/− 2.7.	⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW	IMPORTANT

Certainty assessment

Impact

Certainty

Importance

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

Change in weight (assessed with: Pre/post BMI)

Case Series

very serious ^a

not serious

none

One case series, including 24 patients. Mean LOS was 9.9 wks (+/−3.5 wks). Weight decreased slightly over admission from mean BMI of 20.6 +/− 4.3 to 20.5 +/− 2.7.

⨁◯◯◯

VERY LOW

IMPORTANT

Explanations

^aObservational study with no comparison/control

Bibliography:

Case Series - Wockel 2009 [229]