References for Guidelines

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Ref. 1

Appraisal of guidelines for research and evaluation. The AGREE collaboration, September 2001. www.agreecollaboration.org

Ref. 2

Dimai HP, Pietschmann P, Resch H, Leb G, Klaushofer K. Leitfaden zur medikamentösen Therapie der postmenopausalen Osteoporose. Wien Med Wschr 2002; 152: 596-612.

Ref. 3

Brown JP, Josse RJ and the Scientific Advisory Council of the Osteoporosis Society of Canada. 2002 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2002;167(suppl) 1-22. Website: www.osteoporosis.ca

Ref. 4

Danish guidelines (reference to be completed)

Ref. 5

Les indications des mesures quantitatives du tissu osseux: actualisation. National Agency for Accreditation & Evaluation in Health Care (ANAES), 2000 www.anaes.fr

Ref. 6

Osteoporose bei Frauen nach der Menopause und im hoheren Lagensalter, Prophylaxe, Diagnose, Therapie – Emfehlungen des Dachverbandes der deutschsprachigen osteologischen Fachgesellschaften (DVO). 2003. Website: www.lutherhaus.de/osteo/leitlinien-dvo/index.php

Ref. 7

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis in Greece. Published in the Greek Journal of Musculoskeletal Health, vol 2, issue 4, December 2004. The improved text was also printed in a book as a HELIOS monograph pages 79, Athens 2004.
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Ref. 8

Longoni P, Pappalepore V, Bianchi ML, Ortolani S, Sacchi G, Tempesta F. Percorsi diagnostici e terapeutici condivisi sull'osteoporosis. Editech Pharma Srl, Milan, 2001.

Ref. 9

First Update of the Lebanese Guidelines for Osteoporosis Assessment and Treatment (2007)
Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, MD, MPH; Rafic Baddoura, MD, MPH; Hassane Awada, MD; Asma Arabi, MD, MS and Jad Okais, MD, J Med Liban 2007; 55(4):176-191
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Lebanese guidelines on osteoporosis assessment and treatment. Journal of Clinical Densitometry (2004); El-Hajj Fuleihan G, Baddoura R, Awada H, Okais J, Risk P, McClung M.
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Ref. 10 (Netherlands)

Osteoporose Tweede herziene richtlijn 2002.
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English summary published in Pols HA, Wittenberg J. CBO guideline "Osteoporosis" (second version). NTVG Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2002;146:1359-63.

Ref. 11 (Spain)

Guía de Práctica Clínica de la Sociedad Espanola de Investigaciones Óseas Y Metabolismo Mineral (SEIOMM). Osteoporosis Postmenopáusica 2001. Website: www.seiomm.org

Ref. 12 (UK)

Royal College of Physicians. Osteoporosis. Clinical Guidelines or prevention and treatment 1999 and Royal College of Physicians and Bone and Tooth Society of Great Britain: Update on pharmacological interventions and an algorithm for management 2000. Royal College of Physicians, London UK. Website: www.rcplondon.ac.uk

Ref. 13 (UK)

Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Guidelines on prevention and treatment. Bone and Tooth Society of Great Britain, National Osteoporosis Society and Royal College of Physicians. Royal College of Physicians, London UK. Website: www.rcplondon.ac.uk

Ref. 14 (Scotland)

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Guidelines 56. Prevention and management of hip fracture in older people. Edinburgh, UK: SIGN, 2002 Website: www.sign.ac.uk

Ref. 15 (Scotland)

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. Management of osteoporosis 2003. Website: www.sign.ac.uk

Ref. 16 (USA)

The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) Physician's Guide to prevention and treatment of osteoporosis 2003. National Osteoporosis Foundation, Washington, DC

Ref. 17 (USA)

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Endocrine Practice 2003;9:545-564.

Ref. 18 (USA)

Nelson HD, Helfand M, Woolf SH, Allen JD. Screening for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;137:529-541 and 526-528. Website: www.ahrq.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/osteoporosis/osteorr.htm

Ref. 19 (USA)

Management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: position statement of The North American Menopause Society, Menopause 2006;13:340-367 .

Ref. 20 (USA)

American College of Rheumatology ad hoc Committee on Glucocorticoid-induced Osteoporosis. Recommendations for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. 2001 update. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2001;44:1496-1503.

Ref. 21 (Middle East and North Africa)

Middle East and North Africa Consensus on Osteoporosis

Ghassan MAALOUF¹, Marie-Hélène GANNAGE-YARED¹, Jihad EZZEDINE¹, Bagher LARIJANI² , Samir BADAWI³, Ahmad RACHED³, Leith ZAKRAOUI⁴, Basel MASRI⁵, Efteem AZAR⁵, Elias SABA⁶, Rustum NAMMARI⁶, Gemma ADIB⁷, Hikmat ABOU SAMRA⁷, Ziad ALRAWI⁸, Sami SALMAN⁸, Khaled EL MUNTASSER⁹, Rajab TARSEEN⁹, Wahid EL KHAROUSSI¹⁰, Mohammed AL-LAMKI¹⁰, Abdul Nasser ALOTHMAN¹¹, Najib ALMARZOOK¹¹, Mahmoud EL DESSOUKI¹², Riad SULAIMANI¹², Jamal SALEH¹³, Abdel Rahim SUHAILI¹⁴, Alia KHAN¹⁵, Pierre DELMAS¹⁶, Ego SEEMAN¹⁷.

¹ Lebanese Osteoporosis Prevention Society;² Endocrinology & Metabolism Center. – Shariati Hospital – Iran;³ Egyptian Osteoporosis Prevention Society;⁴ Tunisian Osteoporosis Prevention Society;⁵ Jordanian Osteoporosis Prevention Society;⁶ Palestinian Osteoporosis Prevention Society ;⁷ Syrian Council of Osteoporosis;⁸ Iraqi Osteoporosis Society;⁹ Libyan Osteoporosis Society ;¹⁰ Oman Osteoporosis Society;¹¹ Kuwaiti Osteoporosis Society ;¹² Saudi Osteoporosis Club;¹³ Bahrain Osteoporosis Society ;¹⁴ Gulf Osteoporosis Society ;¹⁵ Division of Endocrinology and Geriatrics – McMaster University- Canada; ¹⁶ President of IOF-Hopital Edouard Herriot-France;¹⁷ Endocrinology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Published in Published in J Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interact 2007; 7(2):131-143

Ref. 22 (Chile)
Guías de Diagnóstico, Prevención y Tratamiento de Osteoporosis, published by the Sociedad Chilena de Reumatologia and the
Sociedad Chilena de Osteologia y Metablismo Mineral, 2006
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Ref. 23 (Argentina)
Guías para Diagnóstico, Prevención y Tratamiento de la Osteoporosis 2007
L. Shurman, A. Bagur, H. Claus-Hermberg, O.D. Messina, A. Negri, A. Sánchez
Consenso de la Sociedad Argentina de Osteoporosis y la Asociación Argentina de Osteologia y Metabolismo Mineral.
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Ref. 24 (Poland)
Recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. Reducing the incidence of fractures through effective prevention and treatment.

Prof. Roman Lorenc, MD, PhD; Piotr Głuszko, MD, PhD; Elżbieta Karczmarewicz, MD, PhD; Krystyna Księżopolska-Orłowska, MD, PhD; Waldemar Misiorowski, MD, PhD; Edward Franek, MD, PhD; Prof. Wanda Horst-Sikorska, MD, PhD; Marek Kaleta, MD, PhD; Błażej Męczekalski, MD, PhD; Prof. Wojciech Olszyński, MD, PhD; Jerzy Przedlacki, MD, PhD; Anna Skalska, MD, PhD; Prof. Alina Warenik-Szymankiewicz, MD, PhD; Prof. Andrzej Więcek, MD, PhD,
Terapia, ROK XV, Nr. 9, z.3 (200) WRZESIEN 2007. Download original PDF (PDF, 2.12 MB)
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