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Review: Majority of osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines ignore patients’ voices

March 20, 2019

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Patients’ voices are ignored all too often in osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines, say researchers, who reviewed 70 English-language guidelines around the world and found less than 40 percent included any mention of patients’ beliefs, values or preferences (BVPs).

Clinical practice guidelines are designed to help health-care professionals achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients by outlining evidence-based recommendations for care.

In this review, published by the journal Osteoporosis International, only 27 of the 70 guidelines analyzed by researchers included mention of patient BVPs. The review included guidelines from the likes of Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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