Here’s what you should know.
1. Andrea Singer, MD, was part of a project presented at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research that studied the effects of implementing a care liaison for fracture patients.
2. Physicians at Georgetown University Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Creighton Health all surveyed their patients which “demonstrated how terrible a job we were doing [at treating patients with Osteoporosis],” Dr. Singer said.
3. The physicians introduced the Fracture Liaison Service application to their care team that allows coordination of post-fracture care
4. In the study, 148 patients were reviewed after the physicians followed the FLS app.
Physicians saw an increase in follow-up bone-mineral density tests. Before the app, the rate was at 21.2 percent. After the app was implemented the rate raised to almost 93 percent.
5. Vitamin D level monitoring also saw a similar jump from 22 percent to 84 percent.
6. Prescriptions increased from 19.5 percent to more than 54 percent after the app was introduced.
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