CPG for Eating Disorders

Current legislation– Article 10 of the Ethics Code and Medical Deontology, 1999. OMC, Revista delConsejo General de Colegios Médicos de España, 1999 (66): 2.124 y 2.931 405 .– Articles 4, 8 and 9 of Law 41/2002, of 14th November, a basic regulatory law that governs thepatient’s autonomy and embraces rights and obligations concerning clinical information anddocumentation (State’s Official Gazette no. 274, dated 15-11-2002, pp. 40.126-40.132) 406 .– Article 9.2 of Law 41/2002, of 14th November, a basic regulatory law that governs thepatient’s autonomy and embraces rights and obligations concerning clinical information anddocumentation (State’s Official Gazette no. 274, dated 15-11-2002, pp. 40.126-40.132) 406 .– Article 9.4 of the Ethics Code and Medical Deontology, 1999. OMC, Revista del ConsejoGeneral de Colegios Médicos de España, 1999 (66): 2.124 y 2.931, concerning observance ofthe patient’s freedom and the possibility to request judicial intervention, if and whennecessary 405 .– Article 17.1 of the Spanish Constitution of 6th of December 1978, concerning the right tofreedom and the prohibition against deprivation of freedom, save for those cases expresslystipulated by the Law, as approved by the General Courts in plenary sessions of the Congressof Deputies and the Senate held on the 31 st of October 1978 and ratified by the Spanishpeople via referendum on the 6th of December 1978 and sanctioned by his Royal Majesty theKing before the General Courts on the 27 th of December 1978 407 .– Article 5 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms of 4 th November, ratified by Spain with date 26 th of September 1979 and publishedin the Spanish Official Gazette on the 10 th of October 1979. Revised in conformity withProtocol number 11 (coming into effect date 1 November 1998), based upon which thecauses for non-voluntary admission to hospital may only be regulated by law 408 .– Article 763 of Law 1/2000, of 7th of January of the Civil Procedures Rules. Non-voluntaryadmission to hospital due to a psychological/psychiatric disorder, which regulates two types:non-voluntary admission to hospital and emergency admission to hospital 409 .CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE FOR EATING DISORDERS189