Improving compliance to osteoporosis workup and treatment in postmenopausal patients after a distal radius fracture

• Main Authors: Roy Kessous (Author), Adi Y. Weintraub (Author), Yoav Mattan (Author), Rivka Dresner-Pollak (Author), Mayer Brezis (Author), Meir Liebergall (Author), Leonid Kandel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Distal radius fracture (DRF) in postmenopausal women is often the first clinical sign of osteoporosis (OP). Despite the availability of effective treatments, only a minority of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are tested for OP. The purpose of this study was to examine whether a...