A public teaching hospital, Tallaght Hospital started a Fracture Liaison Service in 2009 that serves over 750 patients per year. Located in Dublin, Ireland it serves a population of 500,000. Led by Professor David Kane and Dr. Tara Coughlan, the fracture liaison service works with hip, inpatient and outpatient services.
The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Rheumatology,
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Christchurch Hospitals located in Addington, New Zealand, is a public hospital system with a network of two hospitals serving more than 600,000 people. The fracture liaison service is in the orthopedic/geriatric medicine department and manages all fragility fractures (including hip, inpatient, outpatient and vertebral fractures). More than 1000 fracture patients are seen per year. The programme is led by Dr. John Geddes who specializes in geriatrics.
Counties Manukau Health has three hospital sites. Middlemore Hospital is the main hospital, with satellite sites being the Manukau Surgical Centre and Pukekohe Hospital.
Our FLS is Orthogeriatrician lead, and we have access to DEXA scans through our Bone Density Service as well as to Falls and Osteoporosis Clinic.
This programme has been running at the 251 Hellenic Air Force & VA Athens General Hospital from the 1st of May 2013. A nurse and a resident physician identify patients with low energy fractures (40-90 years old), mainly from the orthopedics and neurosurgery clinics and the emergency department.
Nepean Hospital in Sydney, Australia is a public university teaching hospital with a surrounding population of 450,000 people. The Fracture Liaison Service is led by Professor Gustavo Duque and services all fragility fractures, handling around 850 patients per year.
Falls and Fracture Clinic,
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