The national economic burden of eating disorders in Wales: a clinical population data study

BackgroundEating disorders have the highest morbidity of all mental disorders in the UK and can require admission to hospital. We aimed to provide whole system quantification of inpatient admission and general practitioner (GP) contact costs to the National Health Service (NHS) for patients with eating disorders in Wales.MethodsThe Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank contains 84% of all electronic data obtained by NHS Wales...