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Evaluating a Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care Population for Patients at High Risk of Osteoporosis

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Journal Fed Pract
Specialty Health Services
Date 2020 Jan 2
PMID 31892776
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Abstract

A retrospective chart review of patients in a home-based primary care program suggests that patients who are at high risk for osteoporosis may not be receiving adequate dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry screening.

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