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Relating the 10 Year Fracture Risk Tool to Your Patient

Date: Apr 2009
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Ettinger
Objectives:
  1. Appreciate the limitations of BMD T-score as a fracture risk assessment measure
  2. Understand the way that fracture models are constructed; specifically, the options available for input data and output data.
  3. Be able to use a fracture risk model in counseling patients
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