Prediction of frailty fractures or prediction of densitometric osteoporosis. That is the question!;Predicción de fracturas por fragilidad o predicción de osteoporosis densitométrica. ¡esta es la cuestión!

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-44

  Azagra, Rafael ^a,b,c   López Expósito, Francesc ^a,c   Aguyé, Amada ^d   Encabo, Gloria ^e  

^a SAP Vallès Occidental ICS ^*  (Spain)

^b Research Institute University Primary Care IDIAP Jordi Gol   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Centre d'Atenció Primaria Navarcles   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITOMETRY; FRACTURE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; LETTER; OSTEOPOROSIS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ALGORITHMS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84879323012     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2012.11.031     Document Type: Letter

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