Simplifying screening for osteoporosis in Australian primary care: The Prospective Screening for Osteoporosis; Australian Primary Care Evaluation of Clinical Tests (PROSPECT) study

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-59

  Davis, Susan R ^a   Kirby, Catherine ^a   Weekes, Andrew ^b   Lanzafame, Alfred ^b   Piterman, Leon ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Servier Laboratories (Australia) Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fracture prevention.; Osteoporosis; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 78651385204     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181e77468     Document Type: Article

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