Characteristics of patients with very high fracture risk in a community-dwelling geriatric cohort
Most of the geriatric patients are at a very high-risk for osteoporotic fractures. Also, this group presented several limitations in the comprehensive geriatric assessment highlighting the vulnerability of this group. Clinicians need to reinforce fracture-risk assessment and familiarize with treatment options.
Authors
- Olivia Tausendfreund
- Ralf Schmidmaier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-3588)
- Michael Drey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-9672)
- Michaela Rippl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1583-1577)
- Katharina Müller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-4744)
- Sebastian Martini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3663-9239)
- Pauline Grupp
Institutions
- LMU Klinikum (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bone
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2024.117366
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Bone health and osteoporosis research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.96