Commentary on the AAOS position statement: Recommendations for enhancing the care of patients with fragility fractures: A call to arms (and hips, vertebrae, and so on)

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 121-125

  Tosi, Laura L ^a   Bouxsein, Mary L ^b   Johnell, Olof ^c  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; RALOXIFENE; RISEDRONIC ACID;

BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 4444281779     PISSN: 08859698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013611-200409000-00004     Document Type: Note

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