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. 2016 Mar;176(3):391-3.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6020.

Osteoporosis Overtreatment in a Regional Health Care System

Joshua J Fenton  1 , John A Robbins  2 , Anna Lee D Amarnath  3 , Peter Franks  1
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Osteoporosis Overtreatment in a Regional Health Care System

Joshua J Fenton et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Mar.
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Figure.. Unadjusted Percentage of Women Receiving New Drug Prescriptoins and Percentage of All Women Treated by Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry Screening
Main sites include the anterior-posterior spine and femoral neck; non–main sites include the lateral lumbar spine,Ward triangle of the hip, and the radius. Error bars indicate 95% CI.
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