Bone Abstracts

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Introduction: Osteoporotic fractures are known to be costly to society but estimates tend to be based on small scale prospective studies. In the following we report national data for healthcare costs due to fractures in patients with osteoporosis.Study population and methods: All Danish residents aged 35+, mean age 70.5 years, 13% men, 27.3% prior major osteoporotic fracture, who began bisphosphonates for osteoporosis between 1/1997 and 12/2002 (n</e...

Background: It is inadequate to use the patient’s age and sex alone to estimate physicians’ workload in the primary setting. The extent to which the morbidity burden of osteoporosis patients would account of the utilization of primary care services has not been examined.Aim: We analyzed the number of face-to-face visits of osteoporosis patients visiting Danish GP clinics and aimed to assess what proportion of primary care services variation are...