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Rheumatology Advance Access published online on November 9, 2009
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep353
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Ability of FRAX/NOGG guidelines to identify patients sustaining low trauma fractures

Matthew J. Bridges1 and Sheila Ruddick2

1Department of Rheumatology, County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, Darlington and 2Darlington Primary Care Trust, Bishop Auckland, UK.

Correspondence to: Matthew J. Bridges, Department of Rheumatology, County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, Hollyhurst Road, Darlington DL3 6HX, UKmatt.bridges@cddft.nhs.uk

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SIR, The World Health Organization Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) enables a patient's 10-year probability of hip fracture, and major fracture (hip, wrist, humerus and clinical vertebral) to be calculated, and is expressed in percentage terms [1]. Guidelines written by the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group (NOGG) can then be used (in the absence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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