Osteoporosis Canada’s 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis in Canada focus on:

• The clinical impact of fragility fractures
• Assessment and management of women and men at high risk for fragility fracture
• Integration of ten-year absolute fracture risk prediction into an overall management approach
• The guideline authors emphasize that there is currently a large gap between the optimal practices and treatments that they recommend and those that are currently being provided to Canadians with osteoporosis. These guidelines are part of a concerted effort to close this gap
• The target readership is meant to be broad, encompassing all healthcare professionals (e.g. physicians, nurses, pharmacists) and healthcare policy makers who have an interest in the management of osteoporosis
• Following is a point-form summary of the guidelines’ recommendations.

For more information, consult the full guideline document at www.osteoporosis.ca