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Does anyone have a form, or know the formula, to calculate a FRAX (Fracture Risk Assessment) score?
Posted : April 19, 2013 4:14 am
I created a form that has a button to open the FRAX web page and then have edit fields in the form for them to record the results once calculated. I had heard the formula was not available to the public.
Posted : April 26, 2013 5:25 am
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Thank you. That's essentially what we did as I cannot find the published formula anywhere.
Posted : April 29, 2013 12:01 am
There is an alternate calcuation, called the QFracture which might be much more helpful, expecially since it does not require a DEXA score.
Current guildlines, from Choosing Wisely say not to do a DEXA in women under 65 unless they are at "high risk", so a FRAX that requires the DEXA is not helpful in decidine to do the test!
The score can be done easily online here: http://www.qfracture.org/index.php
Would be nice if someone with programming chops could figure out a way to implment the SKD or an API within Centricity to pull the data back into the EMR. Beyond my skills I'm afraid...
Cheers.
Charles Zelnick MD
Posted : January 19, 2014 6:49 am
