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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2009

Quality health care gaps in osteoporosis: how can patients, providers, and the health system do a better job?

Gim Gee Teng, Jeffrey R Curtis, Kenneth G Saag

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Assessing the Quality of Osteoporosis Care in Practice.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015
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  9. Gender differences for initiating teriparatide therapy: baseline data from the Direct Assessment of Nonvertebral Fracture in the Community Experience (DANCE) study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gim Gee TengCenter for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders, and Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 510 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-3708, USA.
Jeffrey R Curtis
Kenneth G Saag
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A significant gap exists between evidence-based advances and real-world clinical practice in the diagnosis and prevention of osteoporosis. The goal of osteoporosis care is to prevent fractures and improve health-related quality of life, and ideally lower mortality. Despite recent advances in osteoporosis detection and treatment options, studies suggest underdiagnosis and undertreatment of osteoporosis, even among those who have already sustained fractures. The challenges in translating knowledge into practice are multifaceted, with efforts directed at the patient, provider, and health care system levels achieving variable success at the population level. Methods to improve quality of care in osteoporosis need to be multipronged, with emphasis on clinical process improvement and reliance on interdisciplinary teams. We review the growing literature on quality of care for osteoporosis.

Indexed as

Outcome Assessment, Health CareQuality of Health CareDisease ManagementEvidence-Based MedicineFractures, BoneHumansManagement Quality CirclesOsteoporosisPatient Care TeamPractice Guidelines as TopicPractice Patterns, Physicians'

Identifiers

PMID19239827
OpenAlexW2041793309

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