One of the goals of the UAB School of Nursing is to provide leadership in clinical practice on campus both nationally and internationally. Dale Tomlinson, nurse practitioner for the UAB Osteoporosis ...

Despite the risk of subsequent fractures in patients with osteoporosis, only approximately 20% of patients nationally receive the appropriate evaluation and treatment following a fragility fracture. A ...

Weak elderly woman with walking stick waiting for help after breathlessness attack .Elderly woman fell on the floor. Researchers evaluated the prevalence of pharmacologic osteoporosis prevention among ...

After reading “The State of Affairs of Osteoporosis Care: The Economic Implications of Current Practice,” complete the program evaluation and select the 1 best answer to each of the posttest questions ...

Many commonly used performance measures to assess how physicians screen for and treat osteoporosis lack evidence for their effectiveness, according to a new position paper by the American College of ...

Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Increased age- and sex-adjusted US fracture ...

Osteoporosis, or weakening of the bones, is not often included in discussions of major health policy concerns, yet bone fractures due to osteoporosis are responsible for more hospitalizations than ...

The high burden of osteoporosis in several European countries contrasts starkly with suboptimal osteoporosis care, provision of treatment, and treatment uptake, according to the results of a report ...

Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) suffer from impaired bone quality and quantity, with a non-vertebral fracture risk which is 4-to 6-fold higher than the fracture risk of matched ...

During Becker’s Hospital Review’s 13 th Annual Meeting, in a workshop sponsored by Amgen, Christen Buseman, PhD, director of IDN strategy and marketing at Amgen, moderated a discussion with Michele ...

On World Osteoporosis Day, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) urges doctors, hospital administrators, and healthcare systems to respond to the global fragility fracture crisis by ensuring ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Osteoporosis should be recognized as a complication of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes care and education ...