High Rate of Non-Treatment among Osteoporotic Women Enrolled in a US Medicare Plan.

CONCLUSIONS: Among Medicare-eligible women aged ≥ 65 identified with OP between 2007 and 2011, 71.4% did not receive OP treatment during 2012, including 75.9% of the subgroup of patients with a prior fracture. The use of diagnosis and procedures codes to identify patients with osteoporosis is subject to variation in coding. PMID: 27447285 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research