Assessing the Quality of Osteoporosis Care in Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with osteoporosis can sustain fractures following falls or other minimal trauma. This risk of fracture can be reduced through appropriate diagnostic testing, pharmacologic therapy, and other readily measured standards of care.

Objectives

Our aim was to develop a credible clinical performance assessment to measure physicians' quality of osteoporosis care, and determine reasonable performance standards for both competent and excellent care.

Design

This was a retrospective cohort study.

Participants

Three hundred and eighty one general internists and subspecialists with time-limited board certification were included in the study.

Main measures

Performance rates on eight evidence-based measures were obtained from the American Board of Int

SUBMITTER: Weng W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4617929 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature