NCT00594789Active, not recruiting
Closing The Post Fracture Care Gap In Manitoba
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The objective of this study is to evaluate a post-fracture intervention for improving osteoporosis care in older men and women who have suffered a fracture that may indicate the presence of osteoporosis. Although osteoporosis can be identified with a bone mineral density (BMD) test, most individuals with osteoporosis are not diagnosed until they fracture. Post-fracture care often "falls between the cracks" when there is a breakdown in communication between hospital and community, or between specialists and primary care physicians. Often physicians and patients fail to make the connection between an acute fracture and osteoporosis, or the value of secondary prevention strategies. If untreated, there is an extremely high rate of additional fractures after a first osteoporotic fracture. It follows that improving BMD testing and/or treatment in appropriately identified individuals is a necessary step in optimizing post-fracture patient care. Over the next three years we will be testing and optimizing a notification procedure to physicians and/or patients relying upon fracture events reported to the provincial health service (Manitoba Health).
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 4264 (actual)
- First submitted
- 3 Jan 2008
- Start date
- Jun 2008
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2011
- Lead sponsor
- University of Manitoba
- Diseases
- Osteoporosis
- NCT number
- NCT00594789
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 4264
- From Jun 2008 to the primary completion date, Mar 2011
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- A fracture event in the previous 12 months meeting the study case definition (i.e., only a single notification per year is planned).
- Current treatment with an osteoporosis medication.
Age
- Age less than 50.
Other
- Non-Manitoba residents, cancelled Manitoba Health coverage, death or discharge to a personal care home.
- Hip or wrist fractures without a procedure tariff.
- BMD testing within the preceding 3 years.
Who the study is looking for
- Women and men age 50 and older with one of the following fracture definitions:
- Hip fracture (physician ICD-9-CM 820-821 plus a procedure code for site-specific fracture reduction or fixation, open or closed)
- Spine fracture (physician ICD-9-CM code 805), or
- Humerus fracture (physician ICD-9-CM code 812), or
- Colles' fracture (physician ICD-9-CM code 813 plus a physician claim for site-specific fracture reduction or fixation, open or closed, or cast application).
Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Boniface General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winnipeg | Canada | Unknown status |
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