90264-3

LOINC 2.82

Fracture Risk Assessment [FRAX]

Definition

  • The Fracture Risk Assessment (FRAX®) tool is used to estimate a patient's major osteoporotic fracture (forearm, hip, or shoulder fracture, or clinical vertebral fracture) [LOINC: 90265-0] as well as of hip fracture specificaly [LOINC: 90266-8]. It includes questions about age, weight, height, smoking, alcohol use, family history of hip fracture, glucocorticoid use (e.g., Prednisone), rheumatoid arthritis and bone mineral density (BMD) at the femoral neck.[https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/FRAX/]

Component

  • Fracture Risk Assessment

Specimen / system

  • ^Patient

Class

  • PANEL.CLIN.RISK

Property

  • -

Scale

  • -

Method

  • FRAX

Related names

  • CLIN; CLIN.RISK; Pan; Panel; PANEL.CLINICAL; Panl; Pnl; Point in time; Random

Index terms

  • CLIN
  • CLIN.RISK
  • Pan
  • Panel
  • PANEL.CLINICAL
  • Panl
  • Pnl
  • Point in time
  • Random