Assessment of inpatient fragility fracture education and outpatient follow-up at an urban tertiary care institution

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-68

  Yoon, Richard S ^a   Macaulay, William ^a   Torres, Gail ^b   Nellans, Kate W ^a   Siris, Ethel S ^b   Bigliani, Louis U ^a   Becker, Carolyn ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; MULTIVITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL; ORTHOPEDICS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATIENT CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 40649089946     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.1.58     Document Type: Article

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