Take Leadership in Reducing Future Fragility Fractures for Your Patients

Patients suffer from more than 1.5 million osteoporotic-related fractures annually in the U.S. 
How many patients do you treat each year? What do you do to lessen their risk of re fracture?

Let Own the Bone help you streamline identification, evaluation, and treatment of fragility fracture patients. Own the Bone is a web-based quality improvement program designed to improve the diagnosis and management of patients' bone health after suffering fragility fractures.  The American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) developed this Bone Health Initiative in response to the identifying osteoporosis and fragility fractures as a major public health problem. 

The October 2004 Surgeon General's Report stated that osteoporosis and fragility fractures will have a tremendous negative impact on the well-being of Americans unless we begin to re-shape patient care. There is a growing prevalence of osteoporosis and low bone mass in people aged 50+.  Up to one half of all women and one fourth of all men will sustain fragility fractures in their lifetime. The strategy for success is to implement a team approach and empower everyone to take steps to Own the Bone and improve patient care.

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AOA welcomes Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation as Founding Member of the Own the Bone Educational Alliance 

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