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Improving Rural Bone Health And Minimizing Fracture Risk In West Virginia: Validation Of The World Health Organization Frax® Assessment Tool As A Phone Survey For Osteoporosis Detection, Franklin D. Shuler Md, Phd, Kelly Scott Md, Mph, Timothy Wilson-Byrne Md, Miranda R. Morgan, Linda Morgan

Orthopaedics

West Virginia ranks second nationally in population ≥ 65 years old placing our state at greater risk for osteoporosis and fracture. The gold standard for detecting osteoporosis is dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), yet over half of West Virginia’s counties do not have this machine. Due to access barriers, a validated phone-administered fracture prediction tool would be beneficial for osteoporosis screening. The World Health Organization’s FRAX® fracture prediction tool was administered as a phone survey to 45 patients; these results were compared to DXA bone mineral density determination. Results confirmed that the FRAX® phone survey is as reliable as DXA in …