CPG for Eating Disorders

This CPG aims to provide the population and health care and education professionalswith a useful instrument to address the most basic aspects of the disease, especially thoseconcerning prevention and treatment. Understanding and assessing these diseases,identifying them and assessing their risk potential, as well as presenting therapeuticobjectives, and deciding on the best site for treatment and providing help to families, aretasks that can be tackled from different professional settings with an undeniable benefitfor patients and family members. Such is the role that this evidence-based guide aims toexercise, and which is the result of the work performed by a group of professionalsinvolved in the field of eating disorders and experts on CPG methodology.This CPG has been revised by Spanish eating disorders experts and is endorsed bySpanish patient associations and scientific societies involved in the management of thesepatients.Pablo RiveroGeneral DirectorQuality Agency of the National Health SystemCLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE FOR EATING DISORDERS8