Osteoporosis medication prescription rates fall, but hip fracture rates not in decline: 3 study notes

Orthopedic

Osteoporosis medication prescribing rates for hip fracture patients continue to decline, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Here are three things to know:

1. This cohort study of 97,169 hip fracture patients found only 9.8 percent of patients were prescribed an osteoporosis medication within 180 days of a hip fracture hospitalization in 2004.

2. Only 3.3 percent of patients with a hip fracture were prescribed an osteoporosis medication within 180 days of a hip fracture hospitalization.

3. In an accompanying editorial, UC San Francisco professor Douglas Bauer, MD, discovered almost all patients with a documented hip or vertebral fracture have osteoporosis, putting them at a high risk of future fracture.

"Undertreatment of patients following hip fracture is an important age-related health disparity that must be addressed by both health systems and individual clinicians," he said, noting hip fracture incidence in the U.S. is no longer declining.

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