Osteoporosis Associated Vertebral Fractures - Medical and Socio-economic Aspects in Austria

Osteoporotic Fractures Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02403726
• Other study ID #: 2011/896
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 20, 2015
• Last updated: March 25, 2015
• Start date: January 2011

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Medical University of Vienna
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Austria: Ethikkommission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purposes of this study were to analyse demographic, medical, gender and socio-economic aspects of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 694
• Est. primary completion date: March 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 50 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

-patients older than 50 years of age with vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine caused by a low-energy trauma or without any trauma, or with vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine with typical osteoporotic deformity of the vertebrae (wedge, fish, or flat)

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients younger than 50 years of age

• vertebral fractures at the cervical spine

• vertebral fractures at the thoracic or lumbar spine caused by a high-energy trauma (motor-vehicle accident, sports-related accident, fall from a considerable height)

• patients suffering from a malignancy, making a pathological fracture presumably, patients with vertebral fractures, whose dataset of follow-up monitoring was lacking, to make an evaluation of osteoporotic involvement impossible

Study Design

Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoporotic Fractures

Intervention

Procedure:
• Operation
Analyzation of demographic, medical, gender and socio-economic aspects of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures treated with operation.
• Non-operative treatment
Analyzation of demographic, medical, gender and socio-economic aspects of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures treated with non-operative treatment.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical University of Vienna

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	demographic aspects	demographic aspects (age, social status) of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures treated with either operation or non operative treatment	at least two year follow up	No
Primary	gender aspects	gender aspects (sex) of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures treated with either operation or non operative treatment	at least two year follow up	No
Primary	socio economic aspects	socio-economic aspects (cost ratio) of osteoporosis associated vertebral fractures treated with either operation or non operative treatment	at least two year follow up	No