Secondary Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures: a Multiple Center Fracture Liaison Service in Greece

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-12-07
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is multiple center, prospective study aiming to investigate the tracking and outcome of patients attending Greek General hospitals with low-trauma fractures. Secondary end-points were to facilitate the implementation of coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention, and to monitor osteoporosis treatment initiation, osteoporosis treatment persistence at 12 months, compliance, and subsequent fractures.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hellenic Society for the Study of Bone Metabolism
• Collaborators: Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki; Democritus University of Thrace; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; UNIVERSITY OF THESSALIA, SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitalized patients and Outpatients over 50 years old with low energy fractures (low energy fracture is defined as a fracture resulting from minimal trauma such as falling from standing height or less).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Presence of osteomalacia and/or other clinical entities predisposing to low energy fractures, apart from osteoporosis, such as primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism, Paget's disease of bone, osteogenesis imperfecta and paraplegia.