Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora. Health New Zealand - Te Tai Tokerau, is a public hospital system with a network of four hospitals serving more than 184,000 people. The Fracture Liaison Service is in the Directorate of Medical and Elder Services and manages all fragility fractures (including hip, inpatient, outpatient and vertebral fractures). Approximately 800-850 fracture patients are assessed by the FLS per year.
Based in Holland, the Dutch Maxima Medical Centre started its Fracture Liaison Service programme in 2004 with a mission to ‘Stop At One: Making your first fracture your last’. This programme is a collaboration among an endocrinologist, a nurse that specializes in fracture care, a nurse practitioner, orthopedic surgeons and each patient’s general practitioner.
For more information about this FLS:
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The General Hospital of Le Mans is a single public hospital that serves 800,000 people. The FLS was initiated in 2010 as a cooperative effort between orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists, and associates dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and geriatricians, targeting patients with a wrist or hip fracture. The assessment of these patients allows us to:
• measure bone mineral density
• identify vertebral fractures, secondary causes of osteoporosis, need for referral to the dentist
• assess need for drug-treatment
A university teaching hospital located in Naples, Italy, the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria – Seconda Università di Napoli has implemented the Centro Ricerche su Osteoporosi e Malattie dell`Osso (C.R.O.M.O) Fracture Liaison Service (FLS). Under the direction of Professor Raffaele Gimigliano, the FLS services outpatients and vertebral fracture patients.
Information about the fracture liaison service:
Directed by lead clinician Dr Vincent Ducoulombier, the GHICL Fracture Liaison Service has been running since 2006.
The Hospital Group of Catholic institute of Lille is located in Lille,France. The fracture liaison service handles all fragility fractures and serves about 300 patients per year.
Ducoulombier V, Prudhomme C, Luraschi H, Vandecandelaere M, Houvenagel E. Rev Rhum 2010 ; 77S : A215-A216
FLS DR NEGRIN in CAPTURE THE FRACTURE
Directed by lead clinicians Dr. Antonio Naranjo and Dr. Soledad Ojeda, the Dr. Negrin Fracture Liaison Service has been running since 2012. The public district hospital is located in the north area of Gran Canaria island and serves a population of around 400,000 people. The fracture liaison service handles all fragility fractures.
This Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) includes a team of six: