Optimizing care in osteoporosis: The Canadian quality circle project

Table 2 Physicians' perceived uncertainty of their patients risk factor status

Patient characteristics: n uncertain/total n (%)	Baseline	1^st Follow-up n (%)
Age ≥ 65 yrs	0/8362 (0.0)	1/7341(< 0.1)
Prior hip fracture	151/8366 (1.8)	23/7344 (0.3)
Prior wrist fracture	238/8367 (2.8)	93/7345 (1.3)
Prior vertebral fracture	823/8365 (9.8)	537/7339 (7.3)
Family history of fracture	4238/8368 (50.7)	1939/7337 (26.4)
At least 1 fall in the previous 12 months	853/8365 (10.2)	NA*
Oral Prednisone therapy (> 3 months)	92/8366 (1.1)	NA*
Menopause before age 45 yrs	1794/8364 (21.5)	835/7339 (11.4)
Any other major risk factor	176/8364 (2.1)	63/7329 (0.9)
Two or more minor risk factors	518/8356 (6.2)	131/7326 (1.8)

Physician's check off the uncertain option on the standardized form for the above patient characteristics (physicians were unaware whether their patients had this characteristic). *NA = not available (it was not measured during follow-up).

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