Improving quality of care in osteoporosis: Opportunities and challenges

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-130

  Teng, Gim Gee ^b   Warriner, Amy ^b   Curtis, Jeffrey R ^b   Saag, Kenneth G ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

BONE DENSITY; BONE NECROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAW OSTEONECROSIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44949249994     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-008-0022-9     Document Type: Review

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