Research Article
Improvement of Osteoporosis Screening among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients at Gastroenterology Fellows’ Clinics
Table 1
Demographic data, characteristics, and DEXA screening rate for IBD patients who are at risk of osteoporosis.
| | Preintervention phase (12 weeks) | Postintervention phase (12 weeks) | VA | County | All | VA | County | All |
| Total clinic patients | 368 | 375 | 743 | 402 | 403 | 805 | No. of IBD patients | 45 | 35 | 80 | 46 | 35 | 81 | UC | 21 | 15 | 36 | 23 | 13 | 36 | Crohn’s | 22 | 20 | 42 | 20 | 22 | 42 | Indeterminate | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Male, N (%) | 42 (93.3%) | 13 (37.1%) | 55 (68.8%) | 45 (97.8%) | 13 (37.1%) | 58 (71.6%) | Age (years), mean ± SD | 61.6 ± 15.0 | 46.8 ± 14.4 | 55.1 ± 16.5 | 62.7 ± 16.4 | 45.1 ± 12.7 | 55.1 ± 17.2 | No. of IBD patients who met DEXA screening criteria, N (%) | 29 (64.4%) | 16 (45.7%) | 45 (56.3%) | 28 (60.9%) | 19 (54.3%) | 47 (58.0%) | Steroid criteria | 13 | 14 | 27 | 11 | 18 | 29 | Age criteria | 19 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 1 | 20 | Fracture criteria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Patients who received appropriate screening DEXA scan, N (%) | 6 (20.7%) | 7 (43.8%) | 13 (28.9%) | 21 (75.0%) | 19 (100.0%) | 40 (85.1%) |
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IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; UC, ulcerative colitis; SD, standard deviation; DEXA scan, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
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