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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2019 May 6;52(7):777–785. doi: 10.1002/eat.23088

TABLE 2.

Consensus disagreement (items where >85% of panel disagreed with the statement)

Initial recommendations
Item Mean
rating
SD %(dis)agreement
Inpatient treatment when the adolescent or family does not have insight into the illness 2.72 1.10 92
Structured outpatient when the adolescent is medically unstable 2.08 0.91 88
Inpatient level of care as first-line treatment when the adolescent has high anxiety 2.04 1.10 96
Transitions between levels of care
Item Mean
rating
SD %(dis)agreement
Transition from outpatient to inpatient treatment when an adolescent is engaging in excessive exercise (and is medically stable) 2.52 1.16 84*
Residential treatment after inpatient medical stabilization 2.2 1.44 80*
Inpatient treatment when an outpatient medication trial is unsuccessful 1.72 0.74 100
*

Near consensus defined as >75% disagreement.