treatment/prophylaxis of corticosteroid induced osteoporosis in adults - General Practice notebook.How to prevent steroid induced osteoporosis
Looking for: - Something wrong? Click here Prednisolone osteoporosis prophylaxis Alternatively, physicians in this study may have failed to provide prophylaxis for several reasons. Firstly, they may have failed to predict a prolonged steroid course. Secondly, they may have failed to prescribe prophylaxis in anticipation when long term steroids were started. This may have occurred because physicians may have been unfamiliar with local guidelines or current literature or there may have been discontinuity of patient follow up and hence failure to intervene with prophylaxis when patients were reviewed or admitted while taking long term steroids. Finally, NOS guidelines had been published but had not been specifically publicised in this hospital and although local guidelines had been produced, they had not been widely circulated. Only one patient with a bone densitometry scan indicating osteoporosis had not been given prophylaxis but this scan result had only just become avai
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