Identification and treatment of osteoporosis in fractures.
Patients who present with osteoporotic fracture are at highest risk of further fractures and their associated morbidity. Despite the availability of several evidence-based therapeutic options, which have the potential to reduce the incidence of fractures by up to 50%, it is paradoxical that these high-risk patients are seldom assessed for osteoporosis and offered treatment. Secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures should now be the priority for osteoporosis services; the challenge that remains is to devise new models of patient care that can deliver strategies for the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in different healthcare settings.
McLellan
Alastair R
AR
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Western Infirmary at the University of Glasgow, 44 Church Street, UK. alastair.mclellan@northglasgow.scot.nhs.uk
D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D012306:Risk; D055502:Secondary Prevention