Guidelines and policies

National guidelines, national/regional policies and national initiatives pertaining to secondary fracture prevention and Fracture Liaison Service models have been developed by professional groups, patient societies and government departments/ministries of health in the following countries.

International Osteoporosis Foundation

Capture the Fracture: a Best Practice Framework and global campaign to break the fragility fracture cycle.
Akesson K, Marsh D, Mitchell PJ, McLellan AR, Stenmark J, Pierroz DD, Kyer C, Cooper C; IOF Fracture Working Group. Osteoporos Int. 2013 Aug;24(8):2135-52. PMID: 23589162; PMCID: PMC3706734.

International Osteoporosis Foundation, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Fragility Fracture Network

A patient-level key performance indicator set to measure the effectiveness of fracture liaison services and guide quality improvement: a position paper of the IOF Capture the Fracture Working Group, National Osteoporosis Foundation and Fragility Fracture Network.
Javaid MK, Sami A, Lems W, Mitchell P, Thomas T, Singer A, Speerin R, Fujita M, Pierroz DD, Akesson K, Halbout P, Ferrari S, Cooper C. Osteoporos Int. 2020 Jul;31(7):1193-1204. PMID: 32266437; PMCID: PMC7280347.


International Osteoporosis Foundation

Vertebral fracture: epidemiology, impact and use of DXA vertebral fracture assessment in fracture liaison services.
Lems WF, Paccou J, Zhang J, Fuggle NR, Chandran M, Harvey NC, Cooper C, Javaid K, Ferrari S, Akesson KE; International Osteoporosis Foundation Fracture Working Group. Osteoporos Int. 2021 Mar;32(3):399-411. PMID: 33475820; PMCID: PMC7929949.


International Osteoporosis Foundation

Capture the Fracture® Partnership: Guidance for Policy Shaping.
Cooper C, Fuggle N, Javaid K, Pinedo-Villanueva R. 2020 Nov.

 

ROYAL AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

SOUTH AUSTRALIA STATEWIDE ORTHOPAEDIC CLINICAL NETWORK AND REHABILITATION CLINICAL NETWORK

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSCULOSKELETAL, DIABETES & ENDOCRINE, FALLS PREVENTION AND AGED CARE HEALTH NETWORKS

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE, ONTARIO WOMEN'S HEALTH COUNCIL, OSTEOPOROSIS CANADA

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE, ONTARIO WOMEN'S HEALTH COUNCIL, OSTEOPOROSIS CANADA

Bone Task Force of the French Society for Rheumatology (SFR), Osteoporosis Research and Information Group (GRIO)

Multi-Sector Coalition

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Royal Osteoporosis Society

AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION

ASBMR TASK FORCE ON SECONDARY FRACTURE PREVENTION

NATIONAL BONE HEALTH ALLIANCE

NATIONAL COALITION FOR OSTEOPOROSIS AND RELATED BONE DISEASES