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Breaking the fracture cycle through effective and coordinated models of care
Date:5/31/2011

A prior fracture at least doubles a patient's future fracture risk yet numerous studies from across the world have found that healthcare systems fail to respond to the first fracture to prevent future fractures. Professor Cyrus Cooper, chair of the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton in the UK stated, "Studies from the UK, USA and Australia have reported that 45% or more of today's hip fracture patients have a prior fracture history. Healthcare systems are evidently failing to respond to the first fracture this is, tragically, a missed opportunity for intervention. Worldwide, millions of people go on to experience debilitating and life-threatening hip fractures, at great cost to the individual and to healthcare systems."

A new position paper issued today by IOF concludes that coordinator-based systems are the most clinically- and cost-effective models to optimise outcome in fragility fracture patients, helping to improve diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in high risk patients for the prevention of secondary fractures. The position paper emphasises the need for coordinator-based models, considers practical experience that is transferable between healthcare systems and describes steps to achieve consensus amongst professionals, patients and policymakers.

Professor Kristina kesson, of the Department of Orthopedics, Skne University Hospital Malm, Lund University in Sweden, and chair of the IOF Fracture Working Group said, "The coordinator, often a nurse or nurse practitioner, acts as a liaison between the orthopaedist, other specialists, the patient and the primary care physician to ensure that that the patient receives coordinated, comprehensive and customized intervention and follow-up. Without this kind of systematic and coordinated approach, there is often a lack of clear responsibility and the patient is lia
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Contact: L. Misteli
info@iofbonehealth.org
41-229-940-100
International Osteoporosis Foundation
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