A5048494365- Bone health and osteoporosis research
- Bone and Joint Diseases
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Bone fractures and treatments
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
University of British Columbia
2015-2017
ABSTRACT We compared two methods for osteoporotic vertebral fracture (VF) assessment on lateral spine radiographs, the Genant semiquantitative (GSQ) technique and a modified algorithm-based qualitative (mABQ) approach. evaluated 4465 women 1771 men aged ≥50 years from Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study with available X-ray images at baseline. Observer agreement was lowest grade 1 VFs determined by GSQ. Among physician readers, greater diagnosed mABQ (ranging 0.62 [95% confidence...
Atypical femoral fractures (AFF) are recently described events related to osteoporosis and, potentially, a rare result of antiresorptive treatment.We set out audit the diagnosis AFF in an acute hospital. Charts and radiographs were reviewed retrospectively from patients diagnosed with subtrochanteric according hospital discharge coding at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), Canada, January 2005 March 2013.A total 3084 discharged hip fracture between 2013. Of these, 204 coded as having had...