The Ottawa Hospital Receives National Award

  The Ottawa Hospital recently received national recognition for completing all eight Essential Elements of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS). The certificate of achievement was in recognition of the Ottawa Hospital’s partnership with Osteoporosis Canada and the Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy, in implementing the Fracture Screening and Prevention Program, also known as FSPP. The FSPP is a…

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Improvements in osteoporosis testing & care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program

Improvements in osteoporosis testing and care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program: an interrupted time series analysis Beaton DE, Mamdani M, Zheng H, Jaglal S, Cadarette SM, Bogoch ER, Sale JEM, Sujic R, Jain R. Medicine. 2017; 96(48):e9012. We evaluated a system-wide impact of a health intervention to…

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Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery

Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery Pincus D, Ravi B, Wasserstein D, Huang A, Paterson JM, Nathens AB, Kreder HJ, Jenkinson RJ, Wodchis WP. JAMA. 2017; 318(20):1994-2003. Epub 2017 Nov 28. Importance — Although wait-times for hip fracture surgery have been linked to mortality and are being used as quality-of-care indicators worldwide,…

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Status Report

Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy – Provincial Performance Data for Osteoporosis Management   Technical Report [hr] [sf_button colour=”white” type=”sf-icon-stroke” size=”large” link=”https://osteostrategy.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/Final-OP-Provincial-Performance-Status-Report-Apr-2017.pdf” target=”_blank” icon=”ss-pdf” dropshadow=”yes” extraclass=””]DOWNLOAD REPORT[/sf_button] [hr]

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