INTRODUCTION
Capture the Fracture® invites Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) to apply for Capture the Fracture® Best Practice Recognition programme. As a global programme, Capture the Fracture® aims to prevent secondary fractures through the worldwide promotion of FLS.
Co-chaired by Professor Serge Ferrari (CH) & Doctor Kassim Javaid (UK), the steering committee has developed the Best Practice Framework to recognize the achievements of existing FLS and to encourage other healthcare systems to implement their own FLS.
A Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) is a service that aims to systematically identify, treat and refer all eligible patients within a local population who have suffered a fragility fracture with the aim of reducing their risk of subsequentfractures.
A site is defined as a single hospital; or a regional service; or network of healthcare providers with identical service provision at each location.
A fragility fracture is a fracture that occurs after trauma equivalent to a fall from standing height or less.
An inpatient stay is defined as requiring a hospital bed on a ward and does not include accident and emergency and acute assessment units.
A clinical vertebral fracture is a fracture of the vertebrae which comes to clinical attention on account of causing symptoms e.g. pain.
A radiological vertebral fracture is a fracture detected by vertebral imaging of the vertebrae through chest X-Ray or other modalities (e.g. re-formatted CT scan, MRI scan or Vertebral Fracture Assessment technology on a DXA scanner).
A service review for monitoring includes any review performed at the patient level to ascertain medication use, re-fracture and further falls.