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The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010. Inaugural meeting 17 and 18 April 1998, Lund, Sweden
1Swedish Institute for Health Services Development.
Abstract:
The increasing impact of bone and joint disorders on patients and healthcare systems, and an awareness that resources need to be more efficiently used, led to arrangements for a Consensus Meeting. This was held in Sweden in April 1998 and ended in an agreement to launch a Decade of Bone and Joint from 2000 to 2010. The aims of the Decade will be to raise awareness of the suffering and cost to society of musculoskeletal disorders such as joint diseases, osteoporosis, spinal disorders and severe trauma, and encourage research and development throughout the world.
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