Original Title: Clinical Practice Guideline for Eating Disorders.

Link to resource: PDF guide available for download Option1 / Option2.

Authors: Working group of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Eating Disorders.

Editor: Quality Plan for the National Health System of the Ministry of Health of Spain and Consumer Affairs. Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research.

Online Site: Ministry of Health of Spain.

Place: Madrid, Spain.

Publication date: 2008.

Number of pages: 287.

Format: PDF.

Type of Guideline: Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG).

Retrieved from: https://portal.guiasalud.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GPC_440_Eat_Disorders_compl_en.pdf

Excerpt: In the last decades, eating disorders have gained increasing sociosanitary relevance due to their severity, complexity and difficulty in establishing a diagnosis and specific treatment. Eating disorders are pathologies of multifactorial ethiology where genetic, biological, personality, family and sociocultural factors converge, affecting mainly children, adolescents and young adults.

There are is no data available in Spain that analyses the economic burden of eating disorder treatments nor studies that assess the cost-effectiveness of different treatments. However, different studies conducted in countries of the European Union2-7 indicate that direct costs (diagnosis, treatment and monitoring or follow-up) and especially indirect costs (economic losses derived from the disease that impact the patient and his/her social setting) entail a high economic burden and considerably decrease the quality of life of patients with eating disorders. According to a German study that was carried out in 2002, in the case of AN, average hospitalisation cost is 3.5 times higher than the general hospitalisation average.
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