Table 46.
Inpatient admission on pediatric unit for children and adolescents with eating disorders
| Certainty assessment | Impact | Certainty | Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| № of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | |||
| Weight Change (assessed with: Pre-post weight measures) | |||||||||
| 3 | Case Series | very serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Three case series including a total of 195 patients. Mean LOS varied between studies from 31 days to 85 days. Two studies reported change in weight using %TGW. In both studies weight rose during admission from mean %TGW of 68% (+/− 5.5) to 99% (+/− 7.7); mean %TGW 75.8% (+/− 2.3) to 85.4% (+/− 1.7) and 73.7% (+/− 2.5) to 86.4% (+/− 3.0 kg) (note: results reported in two groups in second study based on whether the patients were followed after discharge).. The final study including 102 children aged 8–12 yrs. with diagnoses of restrictive ED (93.1%) or bulimia (7.1%). At admission the mean weight was 32.3 kg (SD 7.7) and at discharge mean weight was 35.4 kg (SD 8.9). |
⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
CRITICAL |
| Weight Change (assessed with: Pre-post weight measures) | |||||||||
| 1 | Case Report | very serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | In one case report (n = 6) study change in weight was reported in kg and rose a mean of 8.8 kg from admission to discharge (n = 5) |
⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
CRITICAL |