Improving osteoporosis management in at-risk fracture clinic patients [1]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 727-728

  Ashe, Maureen C ^a   McKay, Heather A ^a   Janssen, Patricia ^b   Guy, Pierre ^b   Khan, Karim M ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LETTER; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RISK FACTOR; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

AGED; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 18944381458     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53228_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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