Randomized Fracture Liaison Services

Status Enrolling by invitation

Clinical Trial Summary

Aims: To compare clinical outcomes for patients under FLS and usual care at the NTUH MH and BB. Method: Four hundred subjects with new hip fracture or newly identified vertebral fracture are randomly assigned into FLS and usual care (UC). FLS subjects received osteoporosis-related assessments, treatments, consultations on diet, medications, exercise, fall preventions given mainly by care managers with followed up telephone call at 4, 8, 12, 18, 24 months then annually for up to 10 years. Care managers will perform baseline assessments and follow them by telephone annually for up to 10 years for UC subjects. Major outcomes include bone mineral density assessment rate, calcium, vitamin D, and osteoporosis medication initiation and adherence rate, fall and fracture incidences, mortality, and healthcare resource utilizations.

Clinical Trial Description

Background: First fragility fracture increased risk for further fracture for 2-4 folds. However, most fracture sufferers did not receive secondary prevention for osteoporosis to decrease future fracture risks. Since 2014, the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) Healthcare system established fracture liaison services and were certified as gold (main hospital, MH) and silver (Beihu branch, BB) medal for best practices. Our preliminary results showed that compared with national average data, hip fracture patients under FLS may have lower mortality rate. However, randomized control trial (RCT) is still needed to confirm results from observational studies. Aims: to compare clinical outcomes for patients under FLS and usual care at the NTUH MH and BB. Method: Four hundred subjects with new hip fracture or newly identified vertebral fracture are randomly assigned into FLS and usual care (UC). FLS subjects received osteoporosis-related assessments, treatments, consultations on diet, medications, exercise, fall preventions given mainly by care managers with followed up telephone call at 4, 8, 12, 18, 24 months then annually for up to 10 years. Care managers will perform baseline assessments and follow them by telephone annually for up to 10 years for UC subjects. Major outcomes include bone mineral density assessment rate, calcium, vitamin D, and osteoporosis medication initiation and adherence rate, fall and fracture incidences, mortality, and healthcare resource utilizations. Anticipated results: Provide evidence on benefit of FLS in RCT on osteoporosis evaluation, medication initiation, mediation adherence, calcium, vitamin D, protein, exercise adherence, fall, re-fracture, mortality and other outcomes. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03178799
Study type	Observational
Source	National Taiwan University Hospital
Contact
Status	Enrolling by invitation
Phase
Start date	June 23, 2017
Completion date	December 31, 2028

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