Background: Osteoporosis is an exceedingly common, morbid, and potentially fatal disease. Efforts to improve the … prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in people living in Central Pennsylvania were instituted in 1996 by the … whether the pilot Community Pharmacist Osteoporosis Education Program, a specific project of the osteoporosis disease …

Health-status and preference-based approaches to assessing health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in osteoporosis are … reviewed. Osteoporosis-targeted health-status instruments [i.e. Osteoporosis Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (OQLQ), Osteoporosis … Assessment Questionnaire (OPAQ), Quality-of-Life Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (QUALEFFO …

of this review was to assess whether articles reporting decision-analytic models in the area of osteoporosis provided … osteoporosis, limiting their use for decision makers across different locations. Transparency of reporting is expected to increase …

was more cost effective than treating younger women with osteoporosis, and treating osteoporotic women with prior spine …

Background: Screening for osteoporosis has been recommended to identify patients at high risk of fracture in order to … strategies combined with 5 years of alendronate therapy for women who have osteoporosis (T-score -2.5 or less). Results: The DXA … strategy had the highest cost and the highest number of patients with osteoporosis detected. Pre-screening strategies using QUS …

ibandronate) are indicated for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis but are costly compared with other treatments, such as … vitamin D and calcium. Our search identified 23 studies evaluating the cost effectiveness of bisphosphonate therapy for the … bisphosphonates for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in women aged >70 years, particularly if they have other risk factors …

Objective: Osteoporosis-related costs are now considered a major burden for health authorities in most developed … evaluating the efficiency of screening and prevention strategies. Osteoporosis is the most frequent underlying cause of femoral …

bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis. We extracted the source of funding, region of study, the journal name and impact …

Background: Osteoporosis is a condition marked by low bone mineral density and the deterioration of bone tissue. One of … the main clinical and economic consequences of osteoporosis is skeletal fractures. Objective: To assess the healthcare and …) and Medicare (aged ≥65 years) patients with osteoporosis (ICD-9-CM code: 733.0x) were identified during 1999-2006 using …

Background: Osteoporosis is considered a disease that affects elderly women. Younger, working-aged women are seldom … on a risk assessment, were potentially at risk of osteopenia or osteoporosis. Forearm bone density was assessed for each … proportion of these women (with low bone mass) were confirmed to have osteopenia or osteoporosis by their physicians, and started …