Assessment of fracture risk assessment tools in care home residents
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A personal perspective on fracture risk assessment tools.
The World Health Organization and the Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education have each recently posted fracture risk assessment tools on Web sites. To be most useful, these tools need to provide risk data in a form that is easily used by clinicians as they discuss treatment options with their patients. This article critiques these two tools and offers clinicians suggestions for key ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Future Healthcare Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2514-6645,2514-6653
DOI: 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s86