The health system is failing to manage patients with osteoporotic fractures and there is no excuse not to try and close the “appalling gap”, says a leading endocrinologist.
Professor Markus Seibel at Sydney University has criticised the lack of care for patients who are presenting to hospitals with low trauma fractures and are at a high risk of ‘refracture’, saying the underlying condition of osteoporosis is being ignored.
He suggests that models of care known as ‘fracture liaison services’ should be implemented and publically funded to provide appropriate treatment and follow-up to patients with osteoporotic fractures.
Writing in the MJA, Professor Seibel at the University of Sydney says more than three quarters of Australian patients who present to hospital with a fracture...
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