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Referral from primary care - osteoporosis

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Referral to secondary care

Metabolic bone clinics provide guidance on which patients to refer. These include those with:

  • diagnostic difficulty
  • intolerance of oral bone-sparing therapy
  • continued fracture while on therapy
  • severe osteoporosis which may require specialised osteoporosis treatments e.g. teriparatide therapy, strontium ranelate
  • other metabolic bone diseases such as osteomalacia or Paget's disease
  • confirmed osteoporosis or low trauma fractures in men

Reference:

  1. ARC. Hands On 2007;11:1-6.

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