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Few Hip Fracture Patients Get Osteoporosis Drugs.
VAIL, COLO. - Less than 10% of the 300,000 Americans annually who fracture their hips are subsequently placed on any form of osteoporosis therapy, Dr. Paul D. Miller declared at a conference on obstetrics and gynecology sponsored by the University of Colorado.
"That's an amazing statistic, isn't it?" observed Dr. Miller, medical director of the Colorado Center for Bone Research in Lakewood, Colo.
The most likely explanation is that hip fracture patients ordinarily are admitted to hospital orthopedic services, where they undergo hip surgery within 36 hours. The orthopedists focus on the technical surgical problems, not the underlying metabolic bone disease. Patients often aren't seen by their primary care physician until months later, at which point--if they're lucky--they're ambulating and may not even bring their surgery to the physician's attention.
The solution is to develop treatment pathways in which orthopedic services either assume responsibility for pharmacologic ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Few Hip Fracture Patients Get Osteoporosis Drugs.