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Editor's Choice Trauma

The Cost-Effectiveness of Fragility-Fracture Screening and Prevention

July 7, 2021 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

After nearly 2 decades, the orthopaedic community has made a good start on assuming our responsibility in the diagnosis of osteoporosis after a patient’s initial low-energy fracture. We are seeing a positive impact from programs such as the American Orthopaedic Association’s “Own the Bone” initiative as well

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Editor's Choice Trauma

Halt Bisphosphonates in Patients with an Atypical Femoral Fracture

January 20, 2021 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Osteoporosis is the major contributor to the increasing incidence of fragility fractures associated with low-energy falls. The other contributor is the populous baby-boomer generation that

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Hand and Wrist Hip Spine Trauma

More Evidence: Coordinated Care Reduces Risk of Second Fragility Fracture

November 16, 2018 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Fracture liaison services and similar coordinated, multidisciplinary fragility-fracture reduction programs for patients with osteoporosis work (see related OrthoBuzz posts), but until now, the data corroborating

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Need to Know Trauma

More Progress in Preventing Secondary Fragility Fractures

April 25, 2018May 8, 2018 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

How well do fracture liaison services (FLSs) work in terms of patients who’ve had a fragility fracture receiving a recommendation for anti-osteoporosis treatment? Very well,

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Hand and Wrist Hip Need to Know Shoulder Spine

Fracture Liaison Service Boosts Patient Engagement with Secondary Prevention

May 25, 2017January 19, 2021 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

OrthoBuzz has published several posts about osteoporosis, fragility fractures, and secondary fracture prevention. In the May 17, 2017 edition of JBJS, Bogoch et al. add

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AOA Symposium: Secondary Fracture Prevention

May 27, 2016 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

On Thursday, June 23, 2016, the American Orthopaedic Association and the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses will host a full-day symposium focused on how to

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Need to Know Surgeon Edition

Fracture Liaison Service Addresses Epidemic of Osteoporosis

April 15, 2015January 19, 2021 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The statistics about osteoporosis and associated fragility fractures are sobering: One-quarter of adults living in the US currently have osteoporosis or low bone density. Twenty-four

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