Fragility Fractures
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Fragility Fractures
[OCOSH Code: D005598 134400000 M80 WI_FR_FF]
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Elderly patients with two episodes of fragility hip fractures form a special subgroup
Location: http://www.josonline.org/pdf/v14i3p245.pdfD Ip, FK Ip. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2006;14(3):245-8 Full text
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Orthopaedic Surgeons and Osteoporosis Management
Location: http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/cjs/vol-51/issue-1/pdf/pg8.pdfE.R. Bogoch, E. Snowden Can J Surg, Vol. 51, No. 1, February 2008
Conclusion: Most of the Canadian orthopedic surgeons sampled consider themselves to be currently engaged or ready to engage in osteoporosis...
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Postfracture Osteoporosis Care
Location: http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/cjs/vol-51/issue-1/pdf/pg6.pdfEditorial: Can J Surg, Vol. 51, No. 1, February 2008 E.R.Bogoch
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Predicting risk of osteoporotic fracture in men and women in England and Wales
Location: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/nov19_1/b4229View Details Visit Resource Review It Rate It Bookmark It Added: Wed Dec 02 2009
QFracture
Location: http://www.qfracture.org/hip fracture or
osteoporotic fracture (hip, vertebral, or distal radius fracture)
over the next 10 years.
The algorithms have been specifically developed by doctors and academics for use in the UK in order to identify people...
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The Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study
Location: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/153/6/587?ijkey=ea4123f37a3cb20c1a71c0e1b5c53c776 ...American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 6 : 587-595 Full Text available
Tuan V. Nguyen1, Jacqueline R. Center, Philip N. Sambrook and John A. Eisman
Fractures of the proximal humerus, forearm, and wrist account for approximately one third...
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