2025 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 67-71
Objective: The hospital had formed a team for fracture liaison services (FLS) and implemented activities. However, the spread of COVID19 infection made smooth activities difficult. Therefore, we decided to restructure the system of FLS activities and check the results.
Methods: Although, conventional FLS activities were conducted only by the physical and occupational therapists involved in orthopedic rehabilitation, who were positioned as an osteoporosis supporters to improve the efficiency of the activities.We investigated patients’ understanding of osteoporosis, adherence rate to treatment and awareness of the osteoporosis supporters.
Results: FLS activities can now continue smoothly. It also resulted in the following secondary effects. The patient’s understanding of osteoporosis was“well understood”(70%) and“somewhat understood”(30%),and the rate of repeat visits to the orthopedic outpatients after discharge increased from 45% to 67%,and in patient education of osteoporosis supporters awareness changes at a high rate.
Conclusions: By establishing our own osteoporosis supporter system, we were able to carry out FLS activities efficiently, which led to an improvement in patient understanding and the rate of repeat visit to the osteoporosis outpatient after discharge.
