Predicting Hip and Major Osteoporotic Fractures Using Administrative Data
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Predicting hip and major osteoporotic fractures using administrative data.
T he Fracture Risk Assessment tool (FRAX) was released in 2008 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The FRAX algorithm uses bone mineral density (BMD) and 11 additional clinical and physiological risk factors to estimate a person’s 10-year probability of hip and other major osteoporotic fracture. The latter is defined by the WHO as a hip, clinical vertebral, distal forearm, or humerus fractu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.410