A closer look at SCOOP: screening for fracture prevention

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands; Stichting Artsen Laboratorium en Trombosedienst, Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands.
² Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrine Section, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: p.elders@vumc.nl.

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Karin M A Swart et al. Lancet. 2018.

. 2018 Aug 18;392(10147):552.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31379-5. Epub 2018 Aug 16.

¹ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands; Stichting Artsen Laboratorium en Trombosedienst, Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands.
² Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrine Section, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: p.elders@vumc.nl.

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Screening in the community to reduce fractures in older women (SCOOP): a randomised controlled trial.
Shepstone L, Lenaghan E, Cooper C, Clarke S, Fong-Soe-Khioe R, Fordham R, Gittoes N, Harvey I, Harvey N, Heawood A, Holland R, Howe A, Kanis J, Marshall T, O'Neill T, Peters T, Redmond N, Torgerson D, Turner D, McCloskey E; SCOOP Study Team. Shepstone L, et al. Lancet. 2018 Feb 24;391(10122):741-747. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32640-5. Epub 2017 Dec 16. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 29254858 Clinical Trial.