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Fragility fractures: proposal of the best practice through the fracture coordination units: the experience of Mexico

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Fragility fractures represent a health problem in Mexico and in the world. This paper reviews and puts forward the implementation of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) as a feasible and cost-effective alternative in health institutions in our country through the identification, treatment, and follow-up of this type of fractures.

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Authors want to thank the support from Mrs. María Josefina Bolado Garza, Head of the Translation Department, División de Investigación, Facultad de Medicina, UNAM, for translating this manuscript. MKJ was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.

Grupo FLS-MX: Grushenska Aguilar-Esparza, Patricia Clark, Roberto Coronado-Zarco, Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Fryda Medina-Rodríguez, Lucía Méndez-Sánchez, Andrea Olascoaga Gómez de León, Esperanza Ramírez-Pérez, Edgar Reyes-Padilla, Beatriz I. Sánchez-Trampe, Rubén Torres-González, Juan M. Viruega-Avalos.

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  1. Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), P.C.: 04510, Mexico City, Mexico

    Lucía Méndez-Sánchez & Patricia Clark

  2. International Osteoporosis Foundation, Oficina Regional Para América Latina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mónica Caló

  3. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Kassim Javaid

  4. Servicio de Cadera, pelvis y acetábulo de la Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad (UMAE) Hospital de Traumatología “Dr. Victorio de La Fuente Narváez” del IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico

    Grushenka Aguilar

  5. Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Mexico City, Mexico

    Andrea Olascoaga-Gómez de León

  6. Servicio de Medicina Interna - Ortogeriatría, Hospital Regional ISSSTE León, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Juan Carlos Viveros-García

  7. Centro de Investigación Ósea Y de La Composición Corporal, Guadalajara, Mexico

    FranciscoTorres-Naranjo

  8. Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica Hospital Infantil Federico Gómez-Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, Dr. Márquez 162, P.C.: 06720, Mexico City, Mexico

    Lucía Méndez-Sánchez, Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Andrea Olascoaga-Gómez de León & Patricia Clark

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Méndez-Sánchez, L., Caló, M., Javaid, M.K. et al. Fragility fractures: proposal of the best practice through the fracture coordination units: the experience of Mexico. Arch Osteoporos 17, 8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-021-01044-y

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