The Fracture Liaison Service comprises a multidisciplinary team who work to prevent, treat, and properly manage osteoporotic fractures, also known as fragility fractures.
Functional Unit
Fragility Fractures (FLS)
The Unit
The main objective of the Fragility Fracture Management Unit is to reduce the risk of new fractures and falls through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach, ensuring the prescription of and adherence to osteoporosis treatment, and providing the patient with tools to improve their mobility.
Projects and resources
Goals
This unit consists of a multicentre care programme, meaning it comprises by several healthcare centres working together to provide continuous and multidisciplinary care to patients suffering from fragility fractures. There are different types of fragility fractures such as hip fractures, vertebral fractures, proximal humerus fractures, distal radius fractures, and pelvic branch fractures. This initiative facilitates coordination between different teams, specialties, and institutions with the goal of ensuring continuity of care for patients diagnosed with fragility fractures.
- Proactively identify patients with fragility fractures in any setting: hospitalisation, emergency, and outpatient care to ensure a high-quality bone assessment and appropriate follow-up.
- Commence appropriate osteoporosis treatment following the latest clinical guidelines to minimise the appearance of new fractures.
- Coordinate long-term follow-up to assess adherence to treatment and to make any relevant adjustments according to the patient's response, reducing the risk of fractures.
- Ensure that patients receive a comprehensive assessment of fracture and refracture risk, and a bone health evaluation, including bone densitometry (DXA) tests and bone remodelling marker analysis.
- Promote patient education on bone health and fall prevention, including recommendations on nutrition, calcium and vitamin D supplementation, and strength and balance exercises.
- Reduce repeated hospitalisations and complications from new fractures through early intervention and multidisciplinary coordination (such as Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Pharmacy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation).
Accreditations and recognitions
Capture the Fracture® Certified Gold Standard
The Capture the Fracture certified gold standard is the highest distinction awarded by this global programme, supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, which aims to facilitate the implementation of coordinated and multidisciplinary care models for secondary fracture prevention. This recognition is awarded to Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) that meet the excellence standards established in the programme's Best Practice Framework.
Team
This is our team:
- Dr. Jordi Martín Marcuello (Coordinator) | Clinical Management
- Dr. Jordi Mascaró | Internal Medicine Service | Geriatrics Unit
- Dr. Alessio Rodolico | Internal Medicine Service | Geriatrics Unit
- Dr. Laura Britez | Internal Medicine Service | Geriatrics Unit
- Dr. Nerea Hernández | Internal Medicine Service | Bone Metabolism Unit
- Dr. Mireia Puig | Emergency Service
- Dr. Marta Blázquez | Emergency Service
- Dolores Muñoz Zafra | Emergency Service
- Dr. Hèctor Corominas | Rheumatology Service
- Dr. Ana Laiz | Rheumatology Service | Bone Metabolism Unit
- Dr. Jose Luis Tandaipan | Rheumatology Service
- Dr. Julio de Caso | Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
- Dr. Helena Bascuñana | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service
- Dr. Jesús Ruiz | Pharmacy Service
- Anna de Dios | Digital Innovation Unit | Pharmacy Service
- Dr. Patrícia Amorós | Digital Innovation Unit | Pharmacy Service
Ana Milena Millán Arciniegas | Bone Metabolism Unit
Services and teams
Care for patients with fragility fractures requires a comprehensive approach that ensures optimal management from diagnosis to recovery. Our Functional Unit is formed by a multidisciplinary team of professionals and services working together to provide continuous and personalised care.
Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
The Internal Medicine Service provides specialised hospital care in general internal medicine to adult patients.
Emergency Services
The Emergency Service is equipped to respond to any type of emergency 24 hours a day.
Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
The Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Service treats patients with orthopaedic, traumatic, or congenital conditions.
Rheumatology
The Rheumatology Service treats patients with chronic inflammatory non-surgical diseases that affect the musculoskeletal system.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service treats patients to help them achieve their maximum level of autonomy, functional capacity, and quality of life.
Pharmacy
The professionals of the Pharmacy Service actively participate in the pharmacological treatment of patients.
Nursing and Social Work
The Sant Pau Nursing Department is an exemplary model in patient care, with its characteristic humanistic approach.
Digital Health
The Digital Health Functional Unit supports and facilitates innovation and digital transformation.
Collaborating centres
We work in coordination with several healthcare centres that work together to provide continuous and multidisciplinary care to patients with fragility fractures. This initiative facilitates coordination between different teams, specialties, and institutions with the aim of ensuring continuity of care for these patients.
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Hospital Dos de Maig
Hospital Sociosanitari Mutuam Güell
Hospital Evangèlic de Barcelona
Hestia Health Palau
Contact
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