Evaluation of Current Decision Rules and Healthcare Professional Practices for Detecting Osteoporosis Risk in the Young Adult Population
Osteoporosis is caused by a multitude of factors. An individual’s risk for experiencing a bone fracture as a senior citizen increases without early intervention. Healthcare professionals do not have access to validated survey tools to identify young adults in need of osteoporosis prevention educatio...
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Virginia Tech
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9990 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06242004-122210 |