NCT03178799Enrolling by invitation
Randomized Fracture Liaison Services
Fracture Liaison Service：A Randomized Control Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Aims: To compare clinical outcomes for patients under FLS and usual care at the NTUH MH and BB. Method: Four hundred subjects with new hip fracture or newly identified vertebral fracture are randomly assigned into FLS and usual care (UC). FLS subjects received osteoporosis-related assessments, treatments, consultations on diet, medications, exercise, fall preventions given mainly by care managers with followed up telephone call at 4, 8, 12, 18, 24 months then annually for up to 10 years. Care managers will perform baseline assessments and follow them by telephone annually for up to 10 years for UC subjects. Major outcomes include bone mineral density assessment rate, calcium, vitamin D, and osteoporosis medication initiation and adherence rate, fall and fracture incidences, mortality, and healthcare resource utilizations.
- Status (registry)
- Enrolling by invitation
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 400 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 5 Jun 2017
- Start date
- 23 Jun 2017
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
- Diseases
- Osteoporosis
- NCT number
- NCT03178799
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 400
- From 23 Jun 2017 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2028
- 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
- Participating in other medication intervention trials
Other
- Traumatic or pathologic fractures
- Atypical femoral shaft fracture
- Less than 2 years of life expectancy judged by team physicians
- Incapable of accepting evaluation for cognitive, communication, and physical problems judged by team physicians or coordinators.
Who the study is looking for
- Age\>=50
- New hip fracture from orthopedic ward
- Newly identified vertebral fracture (either morphological or clinical)/ old hip fracture without osteoporosis treatment referred by team physicians either inpatients or outpatients
- Willing to accept 10 years of follow-ups.
Age in the registry: 50 years to 100 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
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