Improving compliance to osteoporosis workup and treatment in postmenopausal patients after a distal radius fracture

Objective: Distal radius fracture (DRF) in postmenopausal women is often the first clinical sign of osteoporosis (OP). Despite the availability of effective treatments, only a minority of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are tested for OP. The purpose of this study was to examine whether a...

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Main Authors: Roy Kessous, Adi Y. Weintraub, Yoav Mattan, Rivka Dresner-Pollak, Mayer Brezis, Meir Liebergall, Leonid Kandel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-06-01
Series:Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1028455914000722