Garvan Institute’s fracture risk tool ‘outperforms BMD’

The predictive performance of the calculator has been elucidated in a large overseas registry study
Clare Pain
Senior woman who has fallen

An Australian-developed fracture risk algorithm is better at stratifying five-year risk than bone mineral density or individual clinical risk factors alone, a study shows.

Furthermore, the online tool — the Garvan Fracture Risk Calculator (FRC) — is particularly effective at detecting women at high risk of hip fracture, the results suggest.