
Secondary Fracture Prevention
An International Perspective
Description
Key Features
- Provides an international perspective, giving health professionals in different parts of the world essential information to establish country-specific, secondary fracture prevention programs
- Summarizes existing literature on secondary fractures and includes a description of the risks and how they can be prevented
- Highlights secondary fracture prevention and models of care
Readership
Biomedical researchers, research clinicians, clinicians and other health professionals concerned with osteoporosis
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Why secondary fracture prevention?
2. The risk of osteoporotic refracture
3. Models of Secondary Fracture Prevention: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Outcomes
4. International models of secondary fracture prevention
Secondary fracture prevention in Japan
Fracture Liaison Services in South East Asia: Notes from a large public hospital in Singapore
Secondary fracture prevention in Taiwan
Secondary fracture prevention in France
Secondary fracture prevention in the UK
Secondary fracture prevention in Brazil
Secondary Fracture Prevention in Lebanon
Fracture Liaison Services – Canada
Fracture Liaison Service: USA Perspective
Fracture Liaison Services: An Australasian Perspective
5. National and International Programs/Useful resources
Product details
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: October 8, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128131367
- eBook ISBN: 9780128131374
About the Editors
Markus Seibel
Affiliations and Expertise
Paul Mitchell
Dr. Mitchell has spent the last decade developing policy, guidelines and systematic approaches to hip fracture care and prevention throughout the world. He spent the previous 15 years working in the pharmaceutical industry, initially as a basic researcher in neuroscience and, subsequently, in sales, marketing and osteoporosis service development roles.
Specialties: Systems-based approaches to chronic disease management, osteoporosis, fragility fracture prevention, orthogeriatrics, fracture registries, dementia care, policy development, literature review, medical education, website content development.