FRAX website
FRAX Use on the Rise (Elizabeth Hofhienz @ OTW)
FRAX, a fracture risk assessment tool now available in 18 languages, is being used by an increasing number of physicians around the world. The online version alone is used to calculate 10-year probability of fracture in approximately 2.8 million patients annually. FRAX, which is country-specific, can be used with or without the input of bone mineral density (BMD) values measured at the femoral neck. It is available free online at http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/
The recently launched version 3.5 of the tool now includes new models for Ecuador, Norway, Russia, Slovakia and Sri Lanka. The model for Sri Lanka is the first surrogate model, built by combining national mortality data with hip fracture data from a representative, surrogate country. Revised epidemiological data have also been incorporated into the models for Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy and Lebanon.
Dr. Eugene McCloskey, a co-founder of FRAX and Professor in Adult Bone Disease and Honorary Consultant at the Metabolic Bone Centre, University of Sheffield UK, told OTW,
For any new model of FRAX, we need the best available information on the incidence of frac...
