"Evidence-based" or "logic-based" medicine?
Low trauma fractures are the cardinal manifestation of osteoporosis. Their occurrence supersedes bone mineral density in deciding whether specific therapy is warranted. We therefore disagree with the notion that a densitometric threshold for treatment should be applied to patients over age 50 who suffer low trauma distal radius fracture.
Blank
R D
RD
Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, USA. rdb@medicine.wisc.edu
Bilezikian
J P
JP
Bonnick
S L
SL
Laster
A J
AJ
Leib
E S
ES
Lewiecki
E M
EM
Miller
P D
PD
Watts
N B
NB
Binkley
N
N
D015519:Bone Density; D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods
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