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Effect of Implementation of a Standardized Hip
January 2020
Each year in London Ontario, there are approximately 400 fragility hip fractures, acutely cared for across two teaching hospital sites. Currently, London does not have a citywide fracture liaison service addressing the needs of hip fracture patients. As
Distinguished Alumni, Dr. Judi Laprade
January 2020
Dr. Judi Laprade, Bone Fit™ Lead Trainer and Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, was recently awarded the School of Rehabilitation Therapy Distinguished Alumni Award from Queen’s University. The Award recognizes one
Dr. Steven Richie: A Champion Retires
January 2020
At the end of November, Dr. Steve Richie retired from his full-time orthopaedic surgeon practice in Brantford. It is a career he says has “been great and fabulous” and he leaves
with some ambivalent feelings.
Dr. Richie became
A Broken Bone is Life-Changing!
A Broken Bone is Life-Changing
December 2019
John Winslow was an engineer who loved getting the job done. He enrolled in McMaster University’s Divinity Program and went on to become a Reverend. A resident of Hamilton, he believed
Improvements in osteoporosis testing & care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program
Improvements in osteoporosis testing and care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program: an interrupted time series analysis
Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery
Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery
Pincus D, Ravi B, Wasserstein D, Huang A, Paterson JM, Nathens AB, Kreder HJ, Jenkinson RJ, Wodchis WP. JAMA. 2017; 318(20):1994-2003. Epub 2017 Nov 28.
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Caren G. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., Editor
Cost-Effectiveness of Osteoporosis Interventions for ’Incidental’ Vertebral Fractures
Clinical Research Study
Sumit R. Majumdar, MD, MPH,a,b,c Douglas A. Lier, MA,a,c Finlay A. McAlister, MD, MSc,a,b Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc,b,d
Kerry Siminoski, MD,a David A. Hanley, MD,e Anthony S. Russell, MD,a Jeffrey A. Johnson, PhDb,c