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Osteoporosis: screening, diagnosis

Australia, New Zealand

• Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society
  • Geelong Osteoporosis Study DXA Reference Range - ANZBMS position statement [2003]

Belgium

• Belgian Bone Club
  • Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry-Based Assessment of Male Patients Using Standardized Bone Density Values and a National Reference Database [2007]

Canada

• Osteoporosis Canada
  • Recommendations for Bone Mineral Density Reporting in Canada [2005]

International

• International Osteoporosis Foundation
  • Validation of the IOF quality of life questionnaire for patients with wrist fracture [2009]
  • The perspective of the International Osteoporosis Foundation on the official positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry [2005]
  • Requirements for DXA for the management of osteoporosis in Europe [2005]
  • Assessment of fracture risk [2005]

• International Society for Clinical Densitometry
  • Official Positions and Advocacy

South Africa

• National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa
  • Instant vertebral assessment/lateral vertebral assessment: an integral and essential part of osteoporosis assessment [2004]

United Kingdom

• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
  • Management of osteoporosis: Measurement, diagnosis and monitoring [2003]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Osteoporosis and Bone Mineral Density [2010]
  • ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of Adult Dual or Single X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA/pDXA/SXA) [2008]

• Madigan Army Medical Center
  • Bone Densitometry Measurements [2003]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Screening and Risk Assessment for Osteoporosis [Guideline synthesis]
  • Screening for osteoporosis: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement [2011]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteoporosis and bone mineral density [2010]
  • Screening for osteoporosis in the adult U.S. population: ACPM position statement on preventive practice [2009]
  • Vertebral fracture assessment: the 2007 ISCD official positions [2008]
  • Quantitative ultrasound in the management of osteoporosis: the 2007 ISCD official positions [2008]
  • Peripheral dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry in the management of osteoporosis: the 2007 ISCD official positions [2008]
  • Fracture prediction and the definition of osteoporosis in children and adolescents: the 2007 ISCD pediatric official positions [2008]
  • Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry technical issues: the 2007 ISCD official positions [2008]
  • Clinical use of quantitative computed tomography and peripheral quantitative computed tomography in the management of osteoporosis in adults: the 2007 ISCD official positions [2008]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Screening: Osteoporosis [2011]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • FRAX - WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Radiologic Bone Assessment in the Evaluation of Osteoporosis [2002]
  • Osteoporosis: Part I. Evaluation and Assessment [2001]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Bone mineral density testing: Too much of a good thing? [2010]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • The 2002 Canadian bone densitometry recommendations: take-home messages [2002]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do? [2009]

• European Radiology
  • Radiation exposure in X-ray-based imaging techniques used in osteoporosis [2010]

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Clinical Applications of Vertebral Fracture Assessment by Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry [2006]
  • Circulating Osteoprotegerin and Receptor Activator for Nuclear Factor {kappa}B Ligand: Clinical Utility in Metabolic Bone Disease Assessment [2005]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Bone Quality: An Empty Term [2007]

• Salud Pública de México
  • Quantitative ultrasound and bone health [2009]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Assessing the Risk of Vertebral Osteoporosis [2002]

• Skeletal Radiology
  • The Founder’s Lecture 2009: advances in imaging of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis [2010]

• Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
  • When and how frequently DEXA should be performed for the diagnosis and follow-up of osteoporosis in Crohn's disease? [2010]

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