Missed opportunities in patients with osteoporosis and distal radius fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 454, Issue , 2007, Pages 202-206

  Freedman, Brett A ^a,c   Potter, Benjamin K ^a   Nesti, Leon J ^a   Cho, Timothy ^b   Kuklo, Timothy R ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VITAMIN D; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE FRAGILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; WRIST FRACTURE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; RADIODENSITOMETRY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGED; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CALCIUM; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREJUDICE; RADIUS FRACTURES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33846042110     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000238866.15228.c4     Document Type: Article

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