The International journal of eating disorders
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It was the aim of this study to explore the characteristics of bulimics who fail to complete therapy. Noncompleters were divided into those who failed to engage and those who dropped out, so that these groups could be directly compared. ⋯ Our understanding of the eating disorders (and of the effectiveness of treatment) is skewed by the nature of the samples involved. The characteristics of noncompleters could be used at initial assessment to target clinical work towards lowering rates of drop-out and failure to engage.