CPG for Eating Disorders

Consulted bibliographic databases: MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and AppliedHealth (CINAHL), PSYCHINFO, Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC), NationalAgricultural Library (AGRICOLA) and Cochrane Collaboration Libraries. The guide includesthe search performed. Study inclusion criteria: published in all languages, between 19080 andSeptember 2005, in humans aged 10 years and older, of both sexes, diagnosed mainly with AN,BN or BED and informing on at least one of the relevant results.2) Selection of the EvidenceA reviewer carried out the application of selection criteria to titles and/or summaries. Excludedsummaries were assessed by another expert reviewer, and reasons for exclusion were classified.3) Quality Assessment and Synthesis of the EvidenceEvidence tables were elaborated; an external reviewer extracted data on treatments and results;another reviewer confirmed that they were exact, complete and consistent; both reconcileddisagreements. Each reviewer assessed the quality of the studies. The analysis was focused onstudies qualified as moderate (1+) or high (1++) quality.4) Quality and Strength of the Evidence according to West, et al. (2002) 4472 forms were developed to assess the quality of the studies about treatment (25 items) and results(17 items) that enabled the classification of quality as low, moderate or high. The body ofevidence was graded for each key question based on three dimensions: study quality, results andconsistency of findings. After consensus of three expert researchers, the following levels ofevidence were defined: I=strong, II=moderate, III=weak and IV=no evidence.CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE FOR EATING DISORDERS263