The manage- fractures, which result in excess mortal- guideline committees and groups, and ment of osteoporosis should be guided ity and morbidity, decreased quality of participated throughout the entire pro- by the patient’s risk of fracture, based on life and loss of autonomy. [...] Males were under-represented in the clinical evidence of ture risk assessment tool (FRAX or the Canadian Association of certain interventions and outcomes; we therefore report the Radiologists and Osteoporosis Canada [CAROC]).5–7 strength of the recommendations based on the certainty of the Advances in risk assessment and nonpharmacologic and evidence separately for males and females, where approp. [...] Often referred to as fragility or osteoporosis-related frac- postmenopausal females and males aged 50 years and older for tures, they occur as a result of a fall from standing height or the presence of risk factors for osteoporosis and fractures, and in when the force applied to the bone is judged to be insufficient to providing interventions to optimize skeletal health and fracture fracture norma. [...] We will ensure timely dissemination summary of the evidence.12 Recommendations and GPS from of the tools and guideline content through the Osteoporosis Can- each working group were reviewed and approved by the steering ada website and network, podcast, and initiatives with patients committee and thereafter by the Osteoporosis Canada 2023 and primary care providers. [...] The views of the people with selected risk factors.74,76 funding bodies did not influence the process, nor the content of Recent guidelines, such as those of the American College of the recommendations of the guideline.
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