Background To inform recommendations by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health
Care, we reviewed evidence on the benefits, harms, and acceptability of screening and …

Background: Fragility fractures are a major health concern for older adults and can result in
disability, admission to hospital and long-term care, and reduced quality of life. This …

Fractures due to osteoporosis are common in older people. This study assessed the
management of osteoporosis in a group of 85-year-olds and found both assessment and …

Population screening for fracture risk may reduce the fracture incidence. In this randomized
pragmatic trial, the SALT Osteoporosis Study (SOS), we studied whether screening for …

Hip fracture is an acknowledged major public health problem worldwide. Age-standardized
annual rates are 260–349/100 000 in women and 122–140/100 000 among men in the USA …

The fracture risk assessment tool, FRAX®, was released in 2008 and provides country-
specific algorithms for estimating individualized 10-year probability of hip and major …

We examined among women aged≥ 40 years the performance of the Fracture Risk
Assessment Tool (FRAX) and FRAX‐based osteoporosis treatment thresholds under the US …

We evaluated the impact of a more intensive version of an existing post-fracture coordinator-
based fracture prevention program and found that the addition of a full-risk assessment …

Background Despite effective assessment methods and medications targeting osteoporosis
and related fractures, screening for fracture risk is not currently advocated in the UK. We …

SCOOP is a UK seven-centre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial with 5-year follow-up,
including 11,580 women aged 70 to 85 years, to assess the effectiveness and cost …