Data suggests patients in veterans' hospitals receive inadequate osteoporosis evaluation, treatment.

MedWire reported, "Few elderly people with hip fracture receive adequate evaluation and treatment for osteoporosis, a study of patients attending US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals shows." For the study, published in the journal Osteoporosis International, researchers "reviewed the medical records of 3347 patients treated for hip fracture between 2004 and 2006." They found that "only 42 (1.2%) fracture patients underwent" bone mineral density testing; and "only 487 (14.5%) received osteoporosis therapy within 12 months of fracture."