A NATIONAL FRAGILITY FRACTURES REGISTER

TL;DRAbstract

In Italy, osteoporosis is a disease potentially affecting five million people, 80% of whom are post-menopausal women.The natural history of this disease culminates, dramatically, in fragility fractures.The incidence of fragility fractures is now reaching epidemic proportions and, indeed, can no longer be underestimated.In Italy, epidemiological data can be derived only from hospital discharge record (HDR)-based statistics supplied by the Ministry of Health.Since these records contain data relating only to patients discharged from hospitals and institutes providing inpatient care, they provide a figure much lower than the estimated 280,000+ new fractures every year.Despite the availability of these instruments, statistics on hospital admissions may be deemed reliable only in relation to the number of hip fractures, which in 2007 led to over 90,000 hospitalisations.Fragility fractures of other skeletal districts, on the other hand, are often treated non-invasively in the ER and therefore

Chat with Paper

AI Agents for this Paper