Clinical value of prognostic instruments to identify patients with an increased risk for osteoporotic fractures: systematic review.

Clinical value of prognostic instruments to identify patients with an increased risk for osteoporotic fractures: systematic review.

BACKGROUND: With the broad availability of effective medications, identifying individuals bearing a higher risk for osteoporotic fractures has become an issue of major concern in modern medicine. In recent years various prognostic instruments have become available showing conflicting results regardi...

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Main Authors: Johann Steurer, Cyrill Haller, HansJörg Häuselmann, Florian Brunner, Lucas M Bachmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3097232?pdf=render

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