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    • Orthopaedic Surgery
    • Metabolic Bone Disease
    • Fracture Prevention

    Background:

    • Orthopaedic surgeons recognize the link between metabolic bone health and fracture healing.
    • Current focus is on optimizing bone health pre-operatively and establishing care pathways.
    • Fragility fracture care, prevention, and surgical outcome optimization are key concerns.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To describe critical issues in fragility fracture care and prevention.
    • To optimize patient outcomes before elective or fracture surgery.
    • To propose a model pathway for identifying and treating patients with metabolic bone issues.

    Main Methods:

    • Literature review on metabolic bone health in orthopaedics.
    • Analysis of current practices in fragility fracture management.
    • Development of a proposed patient care pathway model.

    Main Results:

    • Identification of challenges in timely diagnosis and treatment of metabolic bone issues.
    • Outline of a structured pathway for patient evaluation and management.
    • Emphasis on the need for integrated care models.

    Conclusions:

    • A systematic approach is needed to address metabolic bone health in orthopaedic patients.
    • The proposed pathway facilitates early identification and treatment of at-risk individuals.
    • Optimizing bone health improves surgical outcomes and reduces re-fracture rates.